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Quotes by Psychologist
"There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all."
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"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity."
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"It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end."
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"Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment."
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"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better."
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"Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit."
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"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."
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"We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms."
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"The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness."
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"It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients."
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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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"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."
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"The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe."
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"The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material."
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"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."
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"In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women."
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"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country."
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"On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question."
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"Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less."
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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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"Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple."
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"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
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"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."
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"Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born."
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"The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek."
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"Why I write music? Because it hurts not to."
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"A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence."
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"The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought."
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"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."
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"Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown."
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"There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community."
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"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best."
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"Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life."
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"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
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"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way."
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"Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters."
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"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."
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"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."
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"I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition."
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"Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."
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"The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!"
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"So I am not a broken heart. I am not the weight I lost or miles or ran and I am not the way I slept on my doorstep under the bare sky in smell of tears and whiskey because my apartment was empty and if I were to be this empty I wanted something solid to sleep on. Like concrete. I am not this year and I am not your fault.I am muscles building cells, a little every day, because they broke that day,but bones are stronger once they heal and I am smiling to the bus driver and replacing my groceries once a week and I am not sitting for hours in the shower anymore. I am the way a life unfolds and bloom and seasons come and go and I am the way the spring always finds a way to turn even the coldest winter into a field of green and flowers and new life. I am not your fault."
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"Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can."
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"Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom."
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"If you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are and that's probably what they will become."
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"Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending."
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