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Quotes by Psychologist

"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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Charlotte Eriksson
"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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R. D. Laing
"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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Henry Ellis
"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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William Glasser
"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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"Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves."
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Virginia Satir
"Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves."
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"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
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Theodore Isaac Rubin
"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
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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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Jacques Lacan
"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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"Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder."
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Alice Miller
"Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder."
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"There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography."
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Thomas Szasz
"There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography."
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"The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness."
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Stanislav Grof
"The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness."
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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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Ivan Pavlov
"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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"Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives."
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William Moulton Marston
"Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives."
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"To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again."
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David Viscott
"To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again."
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"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate."
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Carl Jung
"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate."
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"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands."
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Havelock Ellis
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands."
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"There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"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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Karl Jaspers
"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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"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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Philip Zimbardo
"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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"It could have been so beautiful.The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person ever againand it could have been so beautiful,the way I actually did."
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Charlotte Eriksson
"It could have been so beautiful.The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person ever againand it could have been so beautiful,the way I actually did."
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"No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year."
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David Viscott
"No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year."
Old,
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"Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy."
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Wayne Dyer
"Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy."
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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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Charlotte Eriksson
"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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"Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable."
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James Hillman
"Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable."
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"The best proof of love is trust."
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Joyce Brothers
"The best proof of love is trust."
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"I can't change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it."
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Charlotte Eriksson
"I can't change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it."
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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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Erich Fromm
"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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"Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse."
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Thomas Szasz
"Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse."
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"Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me."
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Hugh Mackay
"Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me."
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"Doubt is the brother of shame."
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Erik Erikson
"Doubt is the brother of shame."
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"I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge."
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William Glasser
"I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge."
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"Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition."
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Stanislav Grof
"Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition."
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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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M. Scott Peck
"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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"The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization."
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Karen Horney
"The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization."
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"I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in."
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Stanislav Grof
"I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in."
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"Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability."
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Hans Bender
"Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability."
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"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent."
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Erich Fromm
"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent."
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"Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action."
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Karl Jaspers
"Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action."
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"The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare."
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Edward Thorndike
"The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare."
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"You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox."
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Wayne Dyer
"You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox."
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"Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss."
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Nathaniel Branden
"Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss."
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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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Stanislav Grof
"The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material."
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"It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them."
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Hugh Mackay
"It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them."
May,
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"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."
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Henry Ellis
"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."
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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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Viktor E. Frankl
"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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"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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Alice Miller
"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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"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."
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Henry Ellis
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."
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"As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care."
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Joyce Brothers
"As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care."
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"Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits."
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J. Philippe Rushton
"Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits."
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"Walt Disney was my great hero."
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Stanislav Grof
"Walt Disney was my great hero."
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"Sweet girl, maybe close the world off and look at him for an houror two.This is your fairy. It ain't perfect and it ain't honey sweet with roses on the bed.It's real and raw and ugly at times. But this is your love. Don't throw it away searching for someone else's love. Don't be greedy. Instead, shelter it. Protect it. Capture every second of easy, pull through every storm of hardship. And when you can, look at him, lying next to you, trusting you not to harm him. Trusting you not to go. Be someone's someone for someone.Be that someone for him."
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Charlotte Eriksson
"Sweet girl, maybe close the world off and look at him for an houror two.This is your fairy. It ain't perfect and it ain't honey sweet with roses on the bed.It's real and raw and ugly at times. But this is your love. Don't throw it away searching for someone else's love. Don't be greedy. Instead, shelter it. Protect it. Capture every second of easy, pull through every storm of hardship. And when you can, look at him, lying next to you, trusting you not to harm him. Trusting you not to go. Be someone's someone for someone.Be that someone for him."
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