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Quotes by Psychologist
"The supremacy of cerebral, manipulative thinking goes together with an atrophy of emotional life."
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"I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind."
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"Second, you should examine the Scriptures for principles that relate to the issue at hand. The Lord will never ask you to do anything that is morally wrong or in contradiction to His Word. If what you are considering violates a concept you find in the Word, you can forget it."
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"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."
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"If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism."
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"My friends, it is wise to nourish the soul, otherwise you will breed dragons and devils in your heart."
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"I was stressed and scared and I had to hurry to be someone, become something, do something. I was running and talking and cursed myself when I wasted my time on things that wouldn't get me anywhere. It was work and it was money and I was never where I was, always somewhere else in my head far, far away."
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"I'm fighting my way into existence, and I will keep doing so until the end of time."
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"In the depths of my heart I can't help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless."
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"It's 4am again and I'm just getting started. People are boring and I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed through my words. I want to get all fucked up and write real and raw and ugly and beautifully. I bet you're sleeping safe and calm, and you can stay there, it's safer there, and you wouldn't stand one night on this journey my mind wanders off to every night you close your eyes. I'll stay here one day and I will never come down. I promise I can fly before I hit the ground. It doesn't even hurt anymore. I swear, it doesn't hurt."
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"Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others."
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"What happens after death is so glorious that our imagination, our feelings do not suffice to form even an approimate conception of it."
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"You must make love to him like his touch is your salvation."
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"The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories."
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"At this point it may be objected: well, then, if even the crabbed sceptics admit that the statements of religion cannot be confuted by reason, why should not I believe in them, since they have so much on their side: tradition, the concurrence of mankind, and all the consolation they yield? Yes, why not? Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. But do not deceive yourself into thinking that with such arguments you are following the path of correct reasoning. If ever there was a case of facile argument, this is one. Ignorance is ignorance; no right to believe anything is derived from it."
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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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"A toddler believes that if you love a person, you stay with that person 100 percent of the time."
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"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."
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"A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa."
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"There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love."
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"When I was about ten, I was very impressed by the way Tarzan could swing through the trees from vine to vine. No one ever told me, 'Don't try this at home.'"
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"I am not a broken heart,and I am not your fault."
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"Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul."
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"Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems."
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"Man's nature, his passions, and anxieties are a cultural product; as a matter of fact, man himself is the most important creation and achievement of the continuous human effort, the record of which we call history."
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"Third, it is helpful to seek advice from those who are spiritually mature and solid in their faith. A godly counselor or pastor can assist you in avoiding the common mistakes that confuse many young people."
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"We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time."
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"The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?"
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"I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest."
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"We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save."
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"In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone."
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"The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition."
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"Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop."
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"If you go to thinking take your heart with you. If you go to love, take your head with you. Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love."
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"An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed - go mad for what you believe in."
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"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."
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"I'm delighted to tell you that Jesus Christ offers complete and total forgiveness to anyone who will repent and believe on His name. ...There are no sins that He cannot cleanse, and He's promised that they will be gone forever."
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"The cultural past is rigidly deterministic to the extent that the individual is unaware of it. An analogy, of course, is found in any psychoanalytic treatment: the patient is rigidly determined by past experiences and previously developed patterns to the extent that he is unaware of these experiences and patterns."
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"With God, even when nothing is happening...something is happening."
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"When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend's sisters,I was the kid in a grey hoodie, walking with the poets, the singers, the thinkers, and I was not alone."
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"The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life."
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"Some tragic mistakes are often made by those who acquire the reins of control before their maturity is adequate to handle it."
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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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"I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it."
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"There comes a time for healingno matter how broken you are right now;no matter how heavy your heart is right now.There comes a time when you will go outsideand let the sun shine on your faceand let the wind touch your hairand you will not be tired by just simply being awake.There comes a time when you will be happy to be alive againand that day you will appreciate your own beingbecause now you know the other side.Now you know the opposite.Now you know what it's like to not be sure if you really are; whoyou really are;if you simply are, anymore.And that daywill be the beginning of everything."
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"In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis."
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"Husbands and wives need to return regularly to the kinds of romantic activities that drew them together in the first place."
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