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Quotes by Psychologist
"The sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily.."
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"It all takes time and lessons and places, but I'm learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to "go, go, go!"
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"Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence."
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"We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake."
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"Love is a power which produces love."
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"Throwing yourself into the purse of a dream is the biggest adventure you can take on."
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"When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow."
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"The analysis of the psychological motivations behind certain doctrines or ideas can never be a substitute for a rational judgement of the validity of the doctrine and of the values which it implies, although such analysis may lead to a better understanding of the real meaning of a doctrine and thereby influence one's value judgement."
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"Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them."
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"Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market."
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"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."
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"We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love."
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"No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere."
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"If youth knew if age could."
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"God is entitled to a portion of our income-not because He needs it but because we need to give it."
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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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"A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work."
Work,
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"And I pray that the pieces of her broken world will come back together."
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"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular."
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"Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in other things, like my music, stories and my journey. The last years I have more or less constantly been on my way, on the road, always leaving and never arriving, which also means leaving people. I've loved and lost and I have regrets and I miss and no matter how many times you leave, start over, achieve success or travel places it's other people that matter. People, friends, family, lovers, strangers " they will forever stay with you, even if only through memory. I've grown to appreciate people to the deepest core and I'm trying to learn how to tell people what I want to tell them when I have the chance, before it's too late."
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"As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know."
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"So many people will tell you no, and you need to find something you believe in so hard that you just smile and tell them watch me. Learn to take rejection as motivation to prove people wrong. Be unstoppable. Refuse to give up, no matter what. It's the best skill you can ever learn."
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"Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought."
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"We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things."
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"Shame is a soul eating emotion."
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"The deepest yearning of human beings seems to be a constellation in which the two poles (motherliness and fatherliness, female and male, mercy and justice, feeling and thought, nature and intellect) are united in a synthesis, in which both sides of the polarity lose their antagonism and, instead, color each other."
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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 cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
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"But no matter how much parents and grandparents may have sinned against the child, the man who is really adult will accept these sins as his own condition which has to be reckoned with. Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart."
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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."
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"Ask yourself what you will care about when everything is on the line."
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"Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life."
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"It's just as hard to go back to a place you once left, as it is to leave it again."
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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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"You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day."
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"Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him."
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"Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity."
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"The field of human relations in Freud's sense is similar to the market-it is an exchange of satisfaction of biologically given needs, in which the relationship to the other individual is always a means to an end but never an end in itself."
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"The right to express out thoughts, however, means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own; freedom from external authority is a lasting gain only if the inner psychological conditions are such that we are able to establish our own individuality."
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"Since men are equal and thus have the same wish for happiness, and since there is not enough wealth to satisfy them all to the same extent, they necessarily fight against each other and want power to secure the future enjoyment of what they have at present."
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"Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint."
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"I am not a broken heart. I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn't know how to handle anything,at any time,and I am not your fault."
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"Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy."
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"The story is told of a famous German chemist that his marriage did not take place, because he forgot the hour of his wedding and went to the laboratory instead of to the church. He was wise enough to be satisfied with a single attempt and died at a great age unmarried."
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"There were always men who looked beyond the dimensions of their own society- and while they may have been called fools or criminals in their time they are the roster of great men as far as the record of human history is concerned- and visualized something which can be called universally human and which is not identical with what a particular society assumes human nature to be. There were always men who were bold and imaginative enough to see beyond the frontiers of their own existence."
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"People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult."
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"To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death."
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