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We use NVC to evaluate ourselves in ways that engender growth rather than self-hatred.
Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you.
Optimism generates hope...hope releases dreams...dreams set goals...enthusiasm follows
Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage
Pleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important.
The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter.
Maturity… is the ability to do something even though your parents have recommended it.
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.
Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.
If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be a cacophany of spoinks.
Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
People don't behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life.
The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.
You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.
If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.
The easy way out is often just that-the 'easy' way out of the most rewarding lifestyle.
People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.
It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.
Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.
The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.
We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.
People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted.
Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.
What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture.
The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.
Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being.
Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.
Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.
Most of sex is psychological - most of it is between our ears and not between our legs.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.
The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.
Most people don't have the advantage of being able to evaluate their doctor in advance.
Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.
Sex is all that it can and should be only when it is surrounded by and wrapped in love.
As long as I think I 'should' do it, I'll resist it, even if I want very much to do it.
Often, in great discovery the most important thing is that a certain question is found.
MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.
The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt... ," but "If ... then ... else.
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.
One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up.
Learn the richness of solitude & quiet. That still small voice is yearning to be heard.
If we are ever to become what we might have been, we must cease being who we've become.
Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences.
Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.
Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent.
Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.