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Quotes by Psychologist
"It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought."
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"Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride."
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"I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me to sleep, because I was tired and small, too weak to take or handle those opinions and views, attacking me from every angle. Against my art, against my self, against my very way of living. I collected my thoughts, my few possessions and built isolated walls around my values and character. I protected my own definition of beauty and success like a treasure at the bottom of the sea, for no one saw what I saw, or felt the same as I did, and so I wanted to keep to myself. You hide to protect yourself."
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"Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it."
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"The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside."
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"I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health."
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"There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon."
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"As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal."
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"Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away."
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"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better."
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"The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization."
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"Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense."
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"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."
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"I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties."
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"Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown."
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"Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account."
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"Being an only child is a disease in itself."
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"Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency."
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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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"The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt."
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"Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension."
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"We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today."
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"You can quiz me on Petrarch, Medea, Shakespeare or Dante, I know them all, and I'm sorry, but they've all gone wrong. Dumb glorified men, writing words about love and life as if they knew. As far as I'm concerned, they didn't make it out alive either, so I'm sure as hell not going to go to them for advice."
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"If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?"
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"Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn."
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"To be concentrated means to live fully in the present, in the here and now, and not to think of the next thing to be done, while I am doing something right now."
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"The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard."
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"If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up."
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"It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts."
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"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
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"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."
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"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
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"Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself."
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"We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms."
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"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."
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"To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind."
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"In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am."
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"We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security."
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"There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."
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"I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come."
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"Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine."
Dogs,
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"Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality."
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"So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?"
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"The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience of oneness."
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