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Growth and change are never easy...If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Get very clear about the kind of world we would like and then start living that way.
It is inconceivable that you would ever see two chimpanzees carrying a log together.
People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.
Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
Along with judging myself harshly, I'd also always seen the truth of goodness in me.
There are no bad drugs. There's simply stupid people who don't know how to use them.
In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.
In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.
The past is remembered as if it were a drama in which the self was the leading player
The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.
The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.
The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle.
Make yourself an efficient spark plug, igniting the latent energy of those about you.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.
Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.
Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.
When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.
If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.
In all the years I've been a therapist, I've yet to meet one girl who likes her body.
A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
At the bottom of all our fears is simply the that we can't handle what life hands us.
For some reason, when you become a support to others, you become bigger than you are.
Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
Philosophy is a performance sport - you have to play it with somebody back and forth.
Most of our oldest memories are the product of repeated rehearsal and reconstruction.
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
Cooperate on move one; thereafter, do whatever the other player did the previous move.
What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
The question for the child is not Do I want to be good? but Whom do I want to be like?
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
I enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet.
Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom.
Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.
To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.
science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you.
Creative exploration [is] impossible, without (humble) acknowledgement of the unknown.
My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.
No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along!
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.
We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences.