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Quotes by Psychologist
"We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives."
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"I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did."
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"The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture."
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"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality."
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"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
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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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"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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"Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown."
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"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."
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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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"An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore."
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"We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms."
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"Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery."
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"The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe."
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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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"The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity."
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"The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum."
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"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
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"Seasons happened and things got colder and harder and suddenly I found myself smoking circles in the airby myself in the snowand I was not okay."
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"Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born."
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"You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters. And you have to keep going even on days you can't find that belief. If you can't do it for yourself, you do it for all the other young souls who need to be shown that things are possible. That they too can do that thing they dream of. You do it despite the doubts and the struggles. You do it because it's what you came here to do.That's what makes an artist."
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"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily."
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"A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'"
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"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity."
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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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"5.57am and I'm finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poetry on the paper. Inhale, exhale, it doesn't get much easier."
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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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"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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"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better."
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"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."
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"A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him."
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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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"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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"The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices."
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"By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed."
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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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"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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"It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end."
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"Beautiful places are not just a joy for the moment, while you're there. They will become homes for you, spaces of solace and comfort, where you can close your eyes and go to. Nothing you experience will ever go away. It belongs to you now. Just feel. Don't be afraid to feel."
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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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"When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label."
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