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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
Ram Dass
You
Free
Think
Possible
Escape
Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
Rollo May
Relationship
Matter
Care
State
Something
Tenderness
Does
Source
Human
Which
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
Sigmund Freud
Men
Think
Moral
Immoral
More
Than
Far
Imagine
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
Sigmund Freud
Love
Humble
Speak
Narcissism
Those
Part
Becomes
Loves
Who
Whoever
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
Sigmund Freud
Justice
First
Civilization
Requisite
Feeling angry is a universal human phenomenon. It is as basic as feeling hungry, lonely, loving, or tired. The capacity to feel angry and to respond in some way to that feeling is in us from birth.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
Angry
Tired
Lonely
Feeling
Birth
Way
Respond
Hungry
Some
Feel
Human
Loving
Capacity
Us
Basic
Universal
Phenomenon
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.
Thomas Szasz
Leadership
Learning
Before
Own
Young
Every
Easily
Willingness
Self-Esteem
Learn
Self-Importance
Children
Young Children
Act
Requires
Suffer
Aware
Why
Injury
Conscious
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz
Religion
Science
Mistake
Strong
Men
Society
Medicine
Weak
Weak Men
Magic
Mistook
Now
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
Thomas Szasz
You
Yourself
Bite
Prevents
Feeding
Feeds
Proverb
Hand
Maybe
Should
In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
Viktor E. Frankl
Positive
Achievement
Man
Achieve
Action
Desolation
Honorable
Way
Consist
Right Way
Carries
Only
Through
He
Contemplation
Himself
His
May
Enduring
Cannot
Loving
Fulfillment
Express
Sufferings
Utter
Right
Image
Beloved
Position
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
Viktor E. Frankl
Happiness
Success
You
Caring
Must
About
Same
Happen
Not Caring
Holds
Whenever you're going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.
Wayne Dyer
God
Time
Spiritual
You
Yourself
Will
Tough
Become
Softer
Align
Thoughtful
Kinder
Rather
More
Through
Tough Time
Split
Generally
Qualities
Than
Going
Whenever
Help
Compassionate
Consciousness
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
Wayne Dyer
Strength
Peace
Mind
Stronger
Universe
Harming
Others
Focused
Physical
Physical Force
Force
Than
Any
Centered
Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.
Wayne Dyer
Love
Thoughts
You
Negative
Negative Thoughts
Feel
Force
Surface
Often
Whenever
Them
Turn
Away
With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.
Abraham Maslow
Humanity
Made
Action
Tree
One Percent
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Percent
Takes
Up
Pioneers
Beginners
Same
Tip
Tips
Where
Place
Population
Growing
Among
Growth
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow
Music
Peace
Poet
Musician
Must
Write
He
Make
Himself
Ultimately
Artist
Paint
If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.
Abraham Maslow
You
Evil
Hopeless
Become
Think
More
Only
Deluded
Like
Freud
Just
Pollyanna
Just One
Then
Pessimistic
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler
Life
You
Too
Danger
Take
Chief
May
Many
A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.
Alfred Adler
You
Simple
Remember
Rule
Those
Striving
Must
Superiority
Point
Point Of View
Along
Him
Deal
Dealing
His
Person
Get
View
Hard
Who
Assert
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
Alfred Adler
God
Man
Soul
Brilliant
Master
Single
Stars
Every
Complete
Cosmos
Perfection
Most
Himself
His
Goal
Human
Manifestation
Eternally
Speaks
Who
Human Soul
Fates
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.
Alice Miller
Humiliation
Will
Humiliated
Intimidated
Intimidating
Those
Give
Beaten
Souls
Impose
Children
Turn
Who
Whose
The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.
Archibald Hill
Knowledge
Natural
World
Mind
Live
Reckless
Mental
Rather
Pursuit
Investigation
Adventure
Voyage
Souls
Material
Affair
Dull
Human
Which
Holiday
Human Mind
Imaginative
Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.
B. F. Skinner
Positive
Extremely
Properly
Powerful
Used
Reinforcement
Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
B. F. Skinner
Me
Give
Give Me
Shape
Him
Child
Anything
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Jung
Fool
Tends
Him
Understand
Does
Person
Regard
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Carl Jung
Man
Become
Press
Unconscious
Contents
Task
Upward
Conscious
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