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Quotes by Psychologist
"We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
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"Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better."
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"Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one."
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"For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals."
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"One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless."
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"One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him."
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"Lifelong pain, an unwanted pregnancy, and even death may be the reward for such a brief window of pleasure. What a foolish gamble!"
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"If you understand this basic concept, it becomes clear that every spending decision is a spiritual decision. Waste, for example, is not a squandering of our resources. It is a poor use of His."
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"Because he refused to adopt a defeatist attitude, he overcame the obstacles in his path."
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"But are we not at the point where we can no longer make the distinction between normal and neurotic? Do we not all have these conflicts, in greater or lesser degree? And do not all conflicts move into contradiction at some point? When all is said and done, all anxiety arises from conflicts, with its origin in the conflict between being and nonbeing, between one's existence and that which threatens it. All of us, no matter how 'neurotic' or 'normal, ' experience the gap between our expectations and reality. This distinction becomes less important, and I believe we must look at all anxiety, preferably without special labels, as part of the human condition."
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"Therefore, a search for God's will should begin on your knees. He will meet you there. Remember that Jesus promised, "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you" (Matthew 7:7)."
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"They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it."
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"So enjoy the exhilaration when it comes. Take the ride to the heights when you get the opportunity. But don't get hooked on the thrill of the moment. Take charge of your emotions. And when it comes time to do the right thing, don't let your feelings lead you to compromise. That is the way to live a happier, more successful life and one that is more pleasing to God."
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"Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves."
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"As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing."
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"The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love."
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"Well, that brings us to the point: There is only one way to protect ourselves from the deadly diseases that stalk the human family. It is abstinence before marriage, then marriage and mutual fidelity for life to an uninfected partner."
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"It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout."
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"The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority."
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"The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either."
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"God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election."
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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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"I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way."
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"As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude."
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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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"There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational."
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"If the religious system does not correspond to the prevalent social character, if it conflicts with the social practice of life, it is only an ideology."
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"The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind."
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"Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation."
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"The love of money is the root of all evil. That's why Jesus issues more warnings about materialism and wealth than any other sin. Obviously, it takes a steady hand to hold a full cup."
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"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."
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"To have been possessed by something so awful and so alien, and then the next morning wake up from it, remember what happened, and realize what I had done, with a clear mind and all my essential moral and ethical feelings intact at that moment, [I was] absolutely horrified that I was capable of doing something like that."
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"I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is."
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"A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him."
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"One of the secrets of successful living is found in the word balance, referring to the avoidance of harmful extremes. We need food, but we should not overeat. We should work, but not make work our only activity. We should play, but not let play rule us. Throughout life, it will be important to find the safety of the middle ground rather than the imbalance of the extremes."
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"Millions are impressed by the victories of power and take it for the sign of strength. To be sure, power over people is an expression of superior strength in a purely material sense. If I have the power over another person to kill him, I am "stronger" than he is. But in a psychological sense, the lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness. It is the expression of inability of the individual self to stand alone and live. It is the desperate attempt to gain secondary strength where genuine strength is lacking."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies."
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"In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave."
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"The real question isn't whether you love your kids or not, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved."
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"The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born."
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"We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism."
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"The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life."
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"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."
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"One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit."
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