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Quotes by Psychologist
"Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life."
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"One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking."
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"Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past."
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"It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade."
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"Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action."
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"To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again."
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"Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience."
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"The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects."
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"I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them."
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"You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future."
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"Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family."
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"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."
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"The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous."
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"Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself."
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"You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day."
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"We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions."
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"Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care."
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"People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
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"There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational."
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"Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line."
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"Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else."
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"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."
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"I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled."
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"It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great."
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"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked."
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"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists."
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"The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords."
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"Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth."
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"Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation."
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"It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting."
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"The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped."
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"We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth."
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"For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period."
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"The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves."
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"One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king."
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"You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich."
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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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"It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost."
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"Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature."
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"If you do jot feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know."
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"Conflict cannot survive without your participation."
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"It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success."
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"Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness."
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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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"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time."
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"I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal."
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"People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out."
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