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Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything. Wayne Dyer

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. Carl Jung

Darkness Evil Understanding Definite Comprehensible Does Cure Inasmuch Help Cope

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum. Carl Jung

Pure Extrovert Asylum Would Would-Be Introvert Person Thing Lunatic

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself. Carl Jung

Young Duty Too Danger Almost Attention Sin Devote Himself Least Person Young Person Ageing Preoccupied Serious Necessity

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society. Carl Jung

Truth Psychic Collective Resting Disposition Think Society Relation Broad Our Shall Bears Individual Unconscious Get Personal Same Psyche Which Inherited Nearest Conscious Universal Basis

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? Carl Rogers

Relationship Change Treat Own Way Would Phrase How His Provide Years His Way Question Cure Person Personal May Personal Growth Which Asking Use Professional Now Growth Early

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic. Edward de Bono

Perception Mistakes Thinking Logic Rather Most Than

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

We're put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Journey You Own Our Earth Bit Tell Must Given More Never No-One Part Put Journeys Learn Discover Lot Handle Than Personal May Just Just A Little Bit Little Little Bit Them Your Lessons Things Here

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Death Me Celebrate Sky Release Balloons Die Graduated Graduation Children

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. Erich Fromm

World Responsive Saddened Without Very Often Being Cannot Deeply

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. Erich Fromm

God Man Problem Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Dead Century Twentieth Twentieth Century

You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play. Erik Erikson

You Creativity Problems Word Free Whatever Young Enormous Says See Seeing Rises He Wrong Also Without How Surface His Close Child Artist Children Young Children Them Paint Play Things

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge. Fritz Perls

You Judge Encouragement Everybody Back Our Out Self-Esteem Make Makes Praise Dependency Then Us Your Slaves Need

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. Ivan Pavlov

Try Become Penetrate Recorder Mystery Facts Mere Origin

There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men. Jordan Peterson

Women People Personality Job Men More Disagreeable Known Polite Women Are Than Get Trait Same Paid Less Agreeable Compassionate

Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well. Lev Vygotsky

Thoughts Personality Feelings Society Everyone Our Possible Some One-Sided Somehow Only Talent Talented Also Well Understood Intellect Human Formed View Human Personality Reason Applied

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. M. Scott Peck

Good History Change Soul Heart Good And Evil Humble Battle Mind Evil Lost Depend Solitary Individual Between Course Waged Ultimately Won May Human Human History Whole Even

Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment. Martin Seligman

Good Feeling Own Relationships Good Relationships Having Head Combination Feeling Good Well Well-Being Exist Accomplishment Just Cannot Meaning Your Actually

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK. Phil McGraw

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself. Phil McGraw

You Yourself More Want Require

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere. Phil McGraw

Time You Relationships Deal Ultimatums Get Authority Going Anywhere Then

You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent. Ram Dass

You Content Discontent Still Moving Your Even

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