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Freeing Your Child from Anxiety is an excellent book, one of the best of its kind.
Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved.
A fulfilling sex life is one of the most powerful marital glues a couple can have.
Wounds, I think, are never confined to a single skin but reach out to rasp us all.
We need to live in mindful harmony with our feelings, not attempt to control them.
There is sometimes only a very fine line between deliberation and procrastination.
You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.
No matter what response you get from anyone you meet, You are a worthwhile person.
Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.
Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.
Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news.
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
In order for me to 'endorse' an intelligence, I need to carry out lots of research.
We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.
We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions.
Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.
If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.
Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty
The problem is, when you depend on a substitute for love, you can never get enough.
It is as if something somewhere were 'known' in the form of images - but not by us.
You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.
What all the basic religions are saying is this: Don't do anything that isn't play.
Behind intimidating messages are simply people appealing to us to meet their needs.
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language.
Underneath the stress is fear, and the biggest is our own personal fear of failure.
What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?
If I'm judging the attachment, myself, or another person, then I create separation.
Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?
[Sexual] fantasies, like children, are most interesting to the people who have them.
A member of my family, who shall remain nameless, refers to all newborns as ‘blobs’.
A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.
Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.
If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.
Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.
The ultimate solutions to problems are rational; the process of finding them is not.
Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.
It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.
Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention.
Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes
Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.