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The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range. Martin Seligman

Best Anger Anxiety Sadness Live Range More Part Comfortable Patients Help Therapists Set

The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness. Martin Seligman

Happiness Life Good World Better Sadness Free Delusion Occur Goal Snare Authentic Commerce Even Presence

If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems. Martin Seligman

Work You Problems Nice Changes Lasts Evidence Reliving Only Gives Point Adult Days Hours Cure Childhood Movement

I've been bothered about time generally and our tripartite division of time into past, present, and future. I think I know what the past is, and I think I know what future is, but I'm really not comfortable with the notion of present. Martin Seligman

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My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good for my sleep. And yet I'll do it again, night after night - 'Oh why did I have that cup of coffee?' I can't stop it because I love it. May-Britt Moser

Love Good Coffee Out Well Because Cup Friends Did Oh Stop After Again Function Why Night Sleep

I was trained to be very tough. My mom told me I shouldn't cry; I shouldn't be afraid of anything. May-Britt Moser

Mom Me Tough Cry Very Trained Afraid Anything

I've trained myself to find time to exercise relaxation of the body. I have these programs - I just listen to the instructions, and they're simple. Sometimes you just hold your hand tight and keep your breath - you hold it, hold it, feel all the tension, and then relax. May-Britt Moser

Time Myself You Simple Sometimes Relax Breath Programs Relaxation Find Tension Feel Instructions Exercise Tight Hand Trained Listen Just Hold Then Body Your Keep

I was the youngest child. I got to be myself and ask stupid questions because I was the youngest. It is so important to listen to the questions children have and reward them for the wondrous questions they ask. May-Britt Moser

Myself Reward Important Stupid Stupid Questions Because Got Questions Child Listen Wondrous Children Them Ask Youngest Youngest Child

A Web site that promotes flow is like a gourmet meal. You start off with the appetizers, move on to the salads and entrees, and build toward dessert. Unfortunately, most sites are built like a cafeteria. You pick whatever you want. That sounds good at first, but soon it doesn't matter what you choose to do. Everything is bland and the same. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Good You Matter First Build Whatever Move On Meal Everything Dessert Web Web Site Bland Pick Soon Toward Like Most Built Gourmet Sounds Salads Off Site Same Sites Move Want Unfortunately Choose Start Flow

Competition is an easy way to get into flow. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Competition Way Easy Easy Way Get Flow

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Discipline Always Children Breed Resentment Among Actually

People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

People Somewhere Enter Hoping Web Web Sites Led Sites Payoff

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love. Milton Sapirstein

It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day. Milton Sapirstein

Love Day Woman Impossible Hours Any Children To Love Twenty-Four Her

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause. Nathaniel Branden

Health Achievement Cause Self-Esteem Productive Expression Consequence

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn. Nathaniel Branden

Knowledge World Rest Every Our Security Ability Total About Ten Only Ten Years Learn Years Human Which Doubling Human Knowledge

Art is life's dream interpretation. Otto Rank

Life Art Interpretation Dream

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others. Otto Rank

Wife Others Neighbor Thou Plenty Shalt Thy Covet

Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked. Oveta Culp Hobby

Age Wonderful Twenty Things

Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap. Oveta Culp Hobby

Me Everything Fell Happened Lap Ever

The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight. Paul Bloom

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Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Modern people don't want to be dropped naked into a swamp. We want to tour Yosemite with our water bottles and G.P.S. devices. The natural world is a source of happiness and fulfillment, but only when prescribed in the right doses. Paul Bloom

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A sympathetic parent might see the spark of consciousness in a baby's large eyes and eagerly accept the popular claim that babies are wonderful learners, but it is hard to avoid the impression that they begin as ignorant as bread loaves. Paul Bloom

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