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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.
Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.
Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli
A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.
Most things that couples disagree upon aren't worth more than a day's combat.
Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.
Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.
In America nature is autocratic, saying, "I am not arguing, I am telling you.
Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
You shouldn't trust the judgments of stock brokers picking individual stocks.
The story of the subconscious mind can be told in three words: there is none.
Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated
Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.
The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.
When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.
The only people who don't make mistakes are the people who don't do anything.
Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.
We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters.
As we learn to speak from the heart we are changing the habits of a lifetime.
NVC gives us tools and understanding to create a more peaceful state of mind.
My anger tells me firstly that there's a need of mine that's not getting met.
Upset? Ask yourself what this person does that is a trigger for judging them?
Controlling others—winning—is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else.
An affective response more appropriate to another's situation than one's own.
What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.
Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.
At Yale we don’t just want to make new things, we want to make things better.
I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.
And you can save more money for retirement. It’s not just about marshmallows.
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.
Your imaginings can have as much power over you as your reality, or even more.
Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.
When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition.
True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match.
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.
What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.
The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.
The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.
You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.
The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.
Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.
We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.
Always listen to what people need rather than what they are thinking about us.