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Quotes by Psychologist
"Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for."
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"Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure."
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"I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made."
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"There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other."
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"For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life."
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"In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli."
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"I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result."
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"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."
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"We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security."
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"The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life."
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"Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind."
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"We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
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"I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt."
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"Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary."
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"Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject."
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"Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it."
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"Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy."
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"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."
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"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."
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"Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one."
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"Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way."
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"There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."
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"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics."
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"I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions."
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"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
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"As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions."
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"Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide."
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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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"As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything."
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"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."
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"Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends."
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"Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say."
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"Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship."
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"Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them."
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"No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence."
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"We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do."
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"Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth."
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"The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes... men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!"
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"Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive."
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"You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it."
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"When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about."
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"The sky was so blue I couldn't look at it because it made me sad, swelling tears in my eyes and they dripped quietly on the floor as I got on with my day. I tried to keep my focus, ticked off the to-do list, did my chores. Packed orders, wrote emails, paid bills and rewrote stories,but the panic kept growing, exploding in my chest. Tears falling on the desktick tick tickme not making a soundand some days I just don't know what to do. Where to go or who to see and I try to be gentle, soft and kind,but anxiety eats you up and I just want to be fine."
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"Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity."
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"Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?"
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"We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health."
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