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Quotes by Psychologist
"Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference."
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"Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem... ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress."
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"We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive."
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"So I am not a broken heart. I am not the weight I lost or miles or ran and I am not the way I slept on my doorstep under the bare sky in smell of tears and whiskey because my apartment was empty and if I were to be this empty I wanted something solid to sleep on. Like concrete. I am not this year and I am not your fault.I am muscles building cells, a little every day, because they broke that day,but bones are stronger once they heal and I am smiling to the bus driver and replacing my groceries once a week and I am not sitting for hours in the shower anymore. I am the way a life unfolds and bloom and seasons come and go and I am the way the spring always finds a way to turn even the coldest winter into a field of green and flowers and new life. I am not your fault."
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"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."
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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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"Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car."
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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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"I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth."
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"The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation."
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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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"Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge."
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"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."
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"Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great."
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"Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys."
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"Horizons, cheap whisky straight from the bottleand your hands in mine."
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"There were days when I still put on make up in case you'd come back,but I wear the same clothes and shower in the rainand eat when I can and sleep when I can,which is rare and not often,so if you'd see me nowon these streetswhere I once imagined walking with youyou'd have a hard time recognising me.I takes a lot to run away."
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"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself."
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"In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient."
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"The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning."
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"I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and write raw and ugly about all these things I see and am and could be."
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"Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing."
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"The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions."
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"Every artist writes his own autobiography."
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"There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself."
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"All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution."
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"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble."
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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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"Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here."
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"I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone."
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"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."
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"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself."
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"My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen."
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"Never permit failure to become a habit."
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"The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount."
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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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"We dig holes for ourselves, of comfortable living, and it's hard to see just how deep down you are until you suddenly want to take a look at the world up there, some fresh airand realise you can't get up. You're too far down."
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"Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body."
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"My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could."
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"A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes."
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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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"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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"Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it."
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"A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen."
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"The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death."
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"Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods."
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"Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective."
Race,
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"Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action."
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