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The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play.
The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius.
What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?
Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.
Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.
If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.
One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.
Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.
Love is not something people feel, but something people try to express no matter how they feel.
The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be
A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.
Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.
True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.
Parents must refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of their children in school.
In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.
Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense.
I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.
When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
When life puts you through a tumbler, it's your choice whether you come out polished or crushed.
...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.
I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.
Shame is not your friend. It depletes your power. Let go of shame and embrace your magnificence.
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded.
When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.
I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.
A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.
As other perceptions arise...the total vision of human possibilities enlarges and is transformed.
Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient.
Spirituality isn't static. It's an evolving optimism that won't let hardship get the best of you.
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.
In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'
Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.