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Quotes by Psychologist
"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."
3
"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."
3
"A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes."
3
"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."
3
"When someone's success makes you as happy as if it were your own, you know you've found someone worth holding on to."
3
"A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen."
3
"This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole."
3
"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."
3
"Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective."
Race,
3
"Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action."
3
"It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice."
3
"I'm here for you. Always. Do you feel me?Hear me? I talk to you every night, does it reach you?"
3
"We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens."
3
"I am not a Sunday morning inside four wallswith clean bloodand organized drawers.I am the hurricane setting fire to the forestsat night when no one else is aliveor awakehowever you choose to see itand I live in my own flamessometimes burning too bright and too wildto make things lastor handlemyself or anyone elseand so I run.run run runfar and wideuntil my bones ache and lungs splitand it feels good.Hear that people? It feels goodbecause I am the slave and ruler of my own bodyand I wish to do with it exactly as I please."
3
"You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day."
3
"Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it."
3
"We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority."
3
"The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence."
3
"Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children."
3
"Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity."
3
"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."
3
"The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest."
3
"In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life."
3
"Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas."
3
"Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity."
3
"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."
3
"Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless."
3
"Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster."
3
"Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian."
3
"The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology."
3
"The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite."
3
"Beautiful places are not just a joy for the moment, while you're there. They will become homes for you, spaces of solace and comfort, where you can close your eyes and go to. Nothing you experience will ever go away. It belongs to you now. Just feel. Don't be afraid to feel."
3
"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."
3
"Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world."
3
"The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up."
3
"We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office."
3
"Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created."
2
"There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it."
2
"Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all."
2
"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence."
2
"These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way."
2
"'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."
2
"When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous."
2
"Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next."
2
"Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human."
2
"The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."
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