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Quotes by Psychologist
"So much is asked of parents, and so little is given."
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"The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!"
2
"A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know."
2
"The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology."
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"Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it."
Fate,
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"Inspiration is God making contact with itself."
2
"Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race."
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"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
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"I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea."
2
"Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power."
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"Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum."
2
"Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences."
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"Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance."
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"One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives."
2
"There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life."
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"Nothing much bothered you for a while and you kept walking like a silhouette through this town, saying hi's and goodbyes, acting polite at all times. But there is no fire in your heart; you are not very concerned."
2
"I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them."
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"The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense."
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"A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation."
2
"My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership."
2
"If you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are and that's probably what they will become."
2
"I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there."
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"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."
2
"Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same."
2
"Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself."
2
"The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time."
2
"It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people."
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"Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious."
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"Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly."
Want,
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"From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large."
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"In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family."
2
"I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992."
2
"There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion."
2
"Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions."
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"True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is."
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"We may define therapy as a search for value."
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"This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have."
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"No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?"
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"Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures."
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"A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood."
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"Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake."
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"Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer."
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