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Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life. Brian Sutton-Smith
Life Time Babies Once Feature Adult Adult Life Taken Taken For Granted Toys Were Granted Now Soft
Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge. Carl Jung
Knowledge Reality Example Field Thinking Other Type Introverted Critique Darwin Objective Could Factor Take Facts Over Himself Normal Subjective Just Might Kant Speaks Wide
In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness. Carl Jung
Life Psychic First Progressive Out Mental Rises Unconscious Development Like Islands Continent Continuous Effect Child Gradually Form Which Depths Separate Means Unite Extension Consciousness
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us. Carl Jung
Life Heart Become Secret Our Unrest Unconscious Dealing Question Being Us Root
You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are. Dale Archer
Happiness Life You Yourself Key Run Accept Understand Lot Who Away Things
The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news. Daniel Kahneman
News Bad Give Bad News Contain Priority Brains Mechanism Designed Humans
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. David Elkind
Matter Teen Adolescence Most Friendships Often Childhood Whereas Choice Chance
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. Edward de Bono
Time New Ideas New Ideas Biggest Bar Right Need
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better. Edward de Bono
History Ignorance Words Better Insist Sense Perceptions Freeze Because Doing Continue Frozen Then Should Use Moment
As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Life Service You Doctor Matter Free Become Slums Take How Goes As Far As Form Social Far Much Worker Working Your Million Things Position
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. Erich Fromm
Life Man Power Gives Except Powers His Unfolding Meaning
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. Erich Fromm
Hope Desperate Become Every Birth Our Born Lifetime Ready Which Means Moment
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. Erich Fromm
Love Integrity Love Is Somebody Own Oneself Something Outside Self Retaining Condition Separateness Union
Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it. Erik Erikson
Mind Will Follower Leader Sense Every Once Member Triumphs Small Adult He Mass His Child Whether Against Forms Measured Defeats Elite
In April, God speaks to us in the seas whose rhythmic murmuring fills our ears from a long way off. It was in April that the Titanic went down into the deep to lie like a slasher's victim, bleeding the 'debris field' - its passengers' personal possessions, the everyday things of everyman and everywoman - across the ocean's floor. Eugene Kennedy
God Lie Long Ocean Victim Field Down Everyday Everyman Our Ears Way April Possessions Long Way Bleeding Like Passengers Off Debris Personal Titanic Rhythmic Us Across Speaks Deep Seas Fills Whose Floor Things Slasher Murmuring
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? Eugene Kennedy
Life Friendship You Simple Nothing Enjoy Other Those Real Test Person Literally Moments Utterly
You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else. George Weinberg
You Yourself Better Else Everyone Everyone Else Would Would-Be Better Off Like Exile Off Than
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. Gerald Jampolsky
Creative Herself Him Limitations Truly Person Creative Person
Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along. Harry Stack Sullivan
Life You Chapter Write Emotional Emotional Life Written Along Go Childhood Cement Your Each
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. Havelock Ellis
Other Side Wilderness Promised Promised Land Lies Always Land
Endings are a part of life, and we are actually wired to execute them. But because of trauma, developmental failures, and other reasons, we shy away from the steps that could open up whole new worlds of development and growth. Henry Cloud
Life Other Worlds Could Wired Open Part Development Developmental Steps Failures New Execute Because Up Endings Them Reasons Whole Trauma Away Actually Growth Shy
In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow. Henry Cloud
You Leader Allow Combination Always End Get Going In The End Create Things Two
The physicality of a real relationship - one that encompasses mind, body and soul - ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be. Henry Cloud
Relationship Soul Mind Virtual More Physicality Could Powerful Makes Real Ultimately Than Real Relationship Any Body Fulfilling Ever
Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. Irvin D. Yalom
Experience Long Other Side Find See Long Experience Couch Like Personal Therapists Therapy Helpful Need
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe? Jacques Lacan
Relationship You Matter Universe Gives None Does How Lovers Them Many
The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world? James Hillman
Depression Home Culture World Car Will Own White Pay Our Immigrants About My Own Taking New New Car Concerned How Going Being Children Psychological Place Much White World Away Ever Competitive
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