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The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha. Carl Jung
Self Developed Buddha Highly Perhaps Importance Most Greatest Greatest Importance Psychology Apart Far Figure Differentiated Symbol
Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks. Daniel Kahneman
Challenges Risks People Political Taking Risks Military Our Our Lives Seeking Inventors Entrepreneurs Shaping Leaders Taking Make Make A Difference Got Optimistic Role Difference Where Decisions Average Average People Disproportionate Lives Play
We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know. Daniel Kahneman
Our Idea Know Blind Blindness How Very Little Designed
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. Edward de Bono
Creativity Way Out Look Involves Established Different Order Breaking Patterns Different Way Things
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Nature You Beauty Would See Carving Never True True Beauty Shield Canyon Should
The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. Erich Fromm
Psychic Insecurity Secure Must Able Feel Himself Person Task Which Tolerate Set
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. Erik Erikson
Love Failure Mistake Joy Symptom Hateful Triumph His Accomplishment Very Child Children Want Loved Prefer Much
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. Havelock Ellis
Nature Moon Long Stars Sun Would Had Disappeared Reach Within Hands Human Predatory Happened
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. Havelock Ellis
Love Jealousy Alive Pretence Which Keeping Dragon
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. Havelock Ellis
Asylum Most Optimism Where Place Lunatic Flourishes
One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless. James Dobson
Life Smile Care Important Christian Others Responsibilities About Most Friend Friendless The Most Important Them Christian Life
When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation. Jordan Peterson
You Yourself Lies Horrifying Constructed How How Much Deception Realisation Realise Much Based Start
People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting. Kay Redfield Jamison
Depression Grief People Respond Out Never Reach How Been Very Goes Anyone Grieving Explain Depressed Hard Who Differently
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior. M. Scott Peck
Behavior Responsibility Pain Consequences Difficulty Our Lies Accepting Avoid Desire
A leader who is confused or confusing causes too much anxiety, and a leader who is too controlling is revealing more insecurity and a lack of leadership. Mark Goulston
Leadership Anxiety Confused Too Much Insecurity Leader Controlling Too More Revealing Causes Lack Much Confusing Who
The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness. Martin Seligman
Happiness Life Good Day Knowledge Every Day Power Goodness Living Every Good Life Adds Consists Signature Component More Main Same Meaningful Your Forward Using Strengths
The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions. Paul Watzlawick
Reality Dangerous Own Only Delusions Most View Belief
The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect. Peter A. Levine
Power Destroy Paradox Both Transform Trauma
Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe. Phil McGraw
People Fear Think Percent Most Safe Want Eighty Choices Choose Based
I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people. Phil McGraw
You People Control Degrade Horrible Someone Names Call Isolate Existence Mean Them
A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it. Phil McGraw
You People Over Over It Know Lot Tragic Get Childhoods
My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did. Phil McGraw
You People Thought Worry Say About Seldom Knew How Did Much Used Dad
Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality. Ram Dass
Reality Our Out Never Tasty Turn Plans
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. Thomas Szasz
Animal Rule Define Defined Eat Eaten Kingdom Human
Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. Viktor E. Frankl
Human Being Other Someone Oneself Something Directed Points Another Always Encounter Than Human Being Being Human Meaning Fulfill
No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. Viktor E. Frankl
Human Being Become Unless No-One He Him Another Very Essence Human Being Loves Fully Aware
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