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Quotes by Psychologist
"I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force."
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"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."
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"That we are bound to the earth does not mean that we cannot grow; on the contrary it is the sine qua non of growth. No noble, well-grown tree ever disowned its dark roots, for it grows not only upward but downward as well."
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"Each year, more responsibility and freedom (they are companions) must be given to the child so that the final release in early adulthood is merely a small, final release of authority."
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"If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities."
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"What I am recommending to the unmarried person, therefore, comes straight out of the Word: Stay out of bed unless you there alone! I know that advice is difficult to put into practice today. But I didn't make the rules. I'm just passing them along. God's moral laws are not designed to oppress us or deprive us of pleasure. They are there to protect us from the devastation of sin, including disease, heartache, divorce, and spiritual death. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity afterward is the Creator's own plan, and no one has devised a way to improve on it."
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"It has been my observation that whatever a person hungers for, Satan will appear to offer in exchange for a spiritual compromise."
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"I'll never forget my father's response when I told him I wanted to be a lawyer. He said, 'If you do this, no man will ever want you.'"
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"The child benefits more from being valued than evaluated."
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"One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself."
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"People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love?"
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"The sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily."
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"We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them."
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"The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity."
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"Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own."
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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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"There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue."
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"The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."
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"Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious."
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"Erotic love, if it is love, has one premise. That I love from the essence of my being-and experience the other person in the essence of his or her being. In essence, all human beings are identical. We are all part of One; we are One."
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"A society whose members are helpless need idols."
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"Perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction."
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"I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream."
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"Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation."
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"The outstanding people realized that the job involved more than just writing a good strategic plan. It was also important that top management should understand the plan and be prepared to adopt it."
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"In studying the psychological significance of a religious or political doctrine, we must first bear in mind that the psychological analysis does not imply a judgement concerning the truth of the doctrine one analyzes. This latter question can be decided only in terms of the logical structure of the problem itself."
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"Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off."
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"If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being "asocial" or "irrational" in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them. How many lives have been ruined by this need to "explain," which usually implies that the explanation be "understood," i.e. approved. Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself-to his reason and his conscience-and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation."
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"The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man."
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"Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny."
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"When you understand that everything you buy is purchased with a portion of your life, it should make you more careful with the use of money."
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"Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?"
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"We have to begin giving them the whole truth about premarital sex and the difficulties it can cause."
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"But we must understand that emotions are unreliable and at times, tyrannical. They should never be permitted to dominate us."
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"Seventy-five percent of students visiting the Cowell Health Center at Stanford University describe themselves as "sexually active."
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"Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes.Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You're doing just fine."
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"Life as we find it is too hard for us it entails too much pain too many disappointments impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies."
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"The relationship between a guy and a girl naturally becomes more intimate as they spend time together."
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"Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any."
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"Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man by necessity uncertain."
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"For despite what some people say, love is not only a sweet falling bound to come and quickly go away."
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"Remember that pornography is dangerous. It can warp the mind and destroy sexual intimacy in marriage. Stay away from it. A monster is crouched behind that door."
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"Ethical principles stand above the existence of the nation and that by adhering to these principles an individual belongs to the community of all those who share, who have shared, and who will share this belief."
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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 psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."
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"I never think that I am the one who must see to it that cherries grow on stalks."
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"Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past."
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"Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways."
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