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Quotes by Psychologist
"It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right."
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"But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death."
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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."
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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
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"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
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"It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work."
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"Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought."
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"I stood in your doorway this morningdreaming you'd turn aroundyou'd tilt your headyou'd softly whisper stayor that you'd grab my armsto shake me while askingwhat the hell are we doingwe loveeach otherand this is not rightso we will make this worknow stay!You poured your coffee. Stirred the spoon like a crystal manwith your back to me and not a sound. the fridge humming elegies while the clock ticked onand the streets are so clean here people rushing to workand maybe I should be tooby nowat this agethis stagethis town.I will stand in that doorway dreamingfor many nights to come."
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"Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted."
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"Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions."
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"Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?"
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"The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power."
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"Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness."
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"It doesn't matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once were. Then it will hurt just as much to leave again, and so it goes over and over again. Once you've started to leave, you will run your whole life."
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"Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him."
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"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."
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"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth."
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"What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal."
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"How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me."
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"People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware."
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"Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone."
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"Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects."
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"In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn."
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"What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some kind of duress, or I chose to study them because they represented some kind of historical event, as it impacted on them or as they helped to create it."
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"Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance."
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"Love is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else."
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"It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge."
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"Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief."
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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
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"The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat."
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"The art of love is largely the art of persistence."
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"I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military."
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"Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time."
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"The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose."
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"There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity."
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"The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective."
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"A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous."
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"Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living."
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"This is my story. I don't know where I'm going, but I know I'm going somewhere beautiful, and I know I'm on my way... It's been a beautiful adventure. It always will be."
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"I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave."
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"Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV."
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"If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."
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"There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can."
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"Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss."
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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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"Dear me, one day I'll make you proud."
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"Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category."
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