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Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.
The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought.
It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.
In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.
I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.
Nature is the first tutor. No one remains untouched or unschooled by the earth, seasons, and heavens.
There are relatively few things that kill people that are young other than car accidents and suicide.
Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat.
These youngsters hold that all morality is relative but that middle class morality is just plain bad.
To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.
The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.
The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.
Even a few moments of offering lovingkindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.
The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.
Failure or success in business is primarily not determined by mental capacity but by MENTAL ATTITUDES
Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances
Some of the most important determinants of life paths arise through the most trivial of circumstances.
Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.
The key to most difficulties does not lie in the dilemmas themselves, but in our relationship to them.
From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.
The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.
Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.
This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition.
All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.
The best of all possible marriages is a seesaw in which first one, then the other partner is dominant.
Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.
An extrovert is more likely to share immediate reactions and process information through conversation.
By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own.
The spirituality that we need to develop for social change is one that mobilizes us for social change.
When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.
How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, as long as the lightbulb wants to change.
The goal is to become the unique, awesome, never to be repeated human being that we were called to be.
The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.
What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.
Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.
If you want to know why some kids can wait and others can't, then you've got to think like they think.
Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs