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Quotes by Psychologist
"I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985."
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"Are you in love? What makes your heart beat faster? What do you want people to think about when they hear your name."
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"Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian."
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"Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis."
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"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."
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"Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth."
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"Love and work... work and love, that's all there is."
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"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."
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"I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name."
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"Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after."
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"Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior."
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"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality."
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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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"Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures."
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"The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress them that immediately afterward they could voluntarily be reproduced."
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"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
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"Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority."
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"An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type."
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"Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts."
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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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"Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands."
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"The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions."
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"It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence."
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"There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal."
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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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"The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation."
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"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
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"Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it."
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"The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization."
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"All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before."
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"We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be."
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"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself."
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"The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires."
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"Go outside. Don't tell anyone and don't bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day out, to the bus and back home and we cease to see. We walk in our sleep and teach our muscles to work without thinking and I dare you to walk where you have not yet walked and I dare you to notice. Don't try to get anything out of it, because you won't. Don't try to make use of it, because you can't. And that's the point. Just walk, see, sit down if you like. And be. Just be, whatever you are with whatever you have, and realise that that is enough to be happy. There's a whole world out there, right outside your window. You'd be a fool to miss it."
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"One is not loved accidentally; one's own power to love produces love - just as being interested makes one interesting. People are concerned with the question of whether they are attractive while they forget that the essence of attractiveness is their own capacity to love. To love a person productively implies to care and to feel responsible for his life, not only for his physical existence but for the growth and development of all his human powers. To love productively is incompatible with being passive, with being an onlooker at the loved person's life; it implies labor and care and the responsibility for his growth."
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"The problem of knowing man is parallel to the religious problem of knowing God. In conventional Western theology the attempt is made to know God by thought, to make statements about God. It is assumed that I can know God in my thought. In mysticism, which is the consequent outcome of monotheism, the attempt is given up to know God by thought, and it is replaced by the experience of union with God in which there is no more room-and no need-for knowledge about God."
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"The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship."
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"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."
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"Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect."
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"Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin."
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"However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks."
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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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"Routine physical punishment such as spanking teaches a toddler that might makes right and that it is fine to hit when one is stronger and can get away with it."
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"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."
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"Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective."
Race,
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"Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves."
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"I'm here for you. Always. Do you feel me?Hear me? I talk to you every night, does it reach you?"
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"I am not a Sunday morning inside four wallswith clean bloodand organized drawers.I am the hurricane setting fire to the forestsat night when no one else is aliveor awakehowever you choose to see itand I live in my own flamessometimes burning too bright and too wildto make things lastor handlemyself or anyone elseand so I run.run run runfar and wideuntil my bones ache and lungs splitand it feels good.Hear that people? It feels goodbecause I am the slave and ruler of my own bodyand I wish to do with it exactly as I please."
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