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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. Havelock Ellis
Life Beautiful Most Beautiful Translation Dancing Mere Abstraction Most Because Itself Arts Moving
After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth. Helene Deutsch
Truth Research Objectivity Ultimate Ultimate Goal Goal After
Clearly, the Scripture tells us that we lack the capacity to grasp God's infinite mind or the way He intervenes in our lives. How arrogant of us to think otherwise! Trying to analyze His omnipotence is like an amoeba attempting to comprehend the behavior of man. James Dobson
God Man Behavior Mind Arrogant Think Omnipotence Otherwise Analyze Our Way Our Lives Tells Comprehend Attempting He Clearly Like How His Trying Infinite Lack Scripture Capacity Us Grasp Lives
Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment. Jean Piaget
Ego Childish Environment Between Essence Inability Social Differentiate
If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards. Jordan Peterson
You People Backwards Push Happens Then Stand Your Ground
You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you. Jordan Peterson
Truth You Carefully Tell Paranoid Open Up Very Person Get Going Listen
Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Karen Horney
Life Remains Still Effective Itself Very Therapist
You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally. Kay Redfield Jamison
Life You Yourself Become Understanding Own More Importantly Quite Literally Meaning Your Illness Aware
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. M. Scott Peck
Behavior Organization Responsibility Power Own Other Our Some Seek Give Entity Individual Attempting Whenever Then Means Avoid Away
Braggarts are insecure and need attention, and bragging often has the opposite effect on most people when you're trying to gain their respect and increase your influence. Mark Goulston
You Respect People Increase Insecure Attention Most Opposite Bragging Effect Trying Often Influence Gain Your Need
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success. Martin Seligman
Success Face Defeat Ability Combination Leads Talent Going Reasonable Keep Keep Going
Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures. There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus. Paul Bloom
Nature Survival Natural Our Virus Drawn Rats Selection Shaped Toward Docile Like Snakes Brain Getting Human Human Brain Reproduction Warm Natural Selection Landscapes Aspects Payoff Cockroaches Enhance Creatures Presence
There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love. Phil McGraw
Love Big Between Big Difference Falling Falling In Love Infatuation Difference Being Being In Love
You're only lonely if you're not there for you. Phil McGraw
Alone You Lonely Only
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. R. D. Laing
History Change Live See Only Disappearing Up Begin Where Moment Present
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. R. D. Laing
Our Alienation Destiny Only Outrageous Human Achieved Human Beings Beings Present Violence
All the reading in the world cannot immunize you from the devastating effects of psychopaths. Everyone, including the experts, can be taken in, conned, and left bewildered by them. A good psychopath can play a concerto on anyone's heart strings. Robert D. Hare
Good You Heart World Reading Everyone Strings Devastating Taken Bewildered Concerto Left Effects Anyone Cannot Experts Them Conned Including Play
Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. Roberto Assagioli
Life Forgiveness Retaliation Without Governed Endless Cycle Resentment
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. Rollo May
Freedom Wish Our Response Throw Weight Toward Involves Human Which Capacity Human Freedom Pause Choose
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Rollo May
Wisdom You Yourself Will Own Betrayed Ideas Listen Being Your Original Original Ideas Express
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. Rollo May
Love Hate Opposite Apathy
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. Sigmund Freud
Strength Religion Illusion Our Fact Instinctual Falls Derives Desires
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. Sigmund Freud
Life Success Man Confidence Mother Feeling Has-Been Darling Triumphant Seldom Throughout He Along Been His Which Actual Brings
Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry. Theodore Isaac Rubin
Angry Anger Sometimes Feelings Enormous Everybody Relative Ease Complexity Perceiving Takes Leading Discern Source Gets Regardless Either Skill Convoluted Reason Original Routes
Have you considered that if you don't make waves, nobody including yourself will know that you are alive? Theodore Isaac Rubin
You Yourself Will Waves Considered Alive Nobody Know Make Including
There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. Thomas Szasz
Only Autobiography Psychology Biography
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