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Quotes by Psychologist
"If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."
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"Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss."
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"In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure."
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"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."
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"Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry."
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"During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions."
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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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"Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science."
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"People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness."
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"PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction."
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"The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience."
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"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen."
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"Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation."
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"The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization."
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"The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate."
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"It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it."
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"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."
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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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"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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"We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be."
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"Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing."
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"The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe."
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"These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test."
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"Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people."
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"It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes."
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"All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality."
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"The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth."
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"The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have."
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"When someone's success makes you as happy as if it were your own, you know you've found someone worth holding on to."
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"The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions."
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"The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print."
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"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."
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"I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn't know how to handle anything,at any time,and I am not your fault."
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"The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up."
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"It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed."
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"Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth."
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"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence."
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"Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built."
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"The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well."
Love,
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"It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them."
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"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."
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"For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency."
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"The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally."
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"In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs."
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