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A good life is like a weaving. Energy is created in the tension. The struggle, the pull and tug are everything.
Men and women aren't the same. And they won't be the same. That doesn't mean that they can't be treated fairly.
It's not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It's inappropriate.
The thing about sex is not that you're naked physically, but if you do it right, that you're naked emotionally.
We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody.
I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.
Unless we as social change agents come from a certain spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.
While no one can change events that occurred in the past, everyone can change attitudes and beliefs about them.
Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.
And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.
We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.
When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.
Stories about ourselves and about the world continually arise in our minds and shape our beliefs about reality.
Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.
If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.
It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior
The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.
The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism
If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth.
Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche.
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.
I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.
How do you take something and make it special? The answer is a lot of hard work and a great deal of imagination.
Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.
By learning to trust your intuition, miracles seem to happen. Intuitive thoughts are gifts from the higher self.
Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the fear which comes from the feeling of helplessness.
But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.
If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.
We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'
There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.
It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.
The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.
This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.
The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.
What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.
You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.
Introverts process information internally, and we don't like to express our thoughts until they are fully formed.
Whatever kind of introvert you are, some people will find you 'too much' in some ways and 'not enough' in others.
When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.
You'll find people less threatening if you hear what they're needing rather than what they're thinking about you.
NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.
We are this divine energy. It's not something we have to attain. We just have to realize it, to be present to it.
To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.
Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man