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Quotes by Psychologist
"It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own."
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"In spite of our proud domination of nature, we are still her victims, for we have not even learned to control our nature."
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"All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day."
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"You're lonely, they say,but it doesn't scare me anymorefor it teaches me,and maybe that's the biggest win from these years:I don't need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,like I always thought I would.I don't break mirrors anymore,like I always thought I would. I can finally stand myself,and I never thought I would."
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"You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters. And you have to keep going even on days you can't find that belief. If you can't do it for yourself, you do it for all the other young souls who need to be shown that things are possible. That they too can do that thing they dream of. You do it despite the doubts and the struggles. You do it because it's what you came here to do.That's what makes an artist."
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"My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time."
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"The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?"
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"No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself."
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"It is that we are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love."
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"Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs."
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"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."
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"According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes."
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"People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most."
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"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is."
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"Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power."
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"The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it."
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"The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer."
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"The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on."
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"Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected."
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"I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime."
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"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best."
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"'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm."
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"The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio."
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"It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health."
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"Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority."
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"It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge."
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"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."
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"You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox."
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"Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth."
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"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had."
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"Dear me, one day I'll make you proud."
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"We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols."
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"Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage."
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"The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions."
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"Academic success depends on research and publications."
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"Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms."
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"Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse."
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"From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found."
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"Nothing much bothered you for a while and you kept walking like a silhouette through this town, saying hi's and goodbyes, acting polite at all times. But there is no fire in your heart; you are not very concerned."
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"Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can."
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"Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought."
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"Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being."
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"Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults."
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"To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men."
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"Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced."
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"A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'"
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"As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge."
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