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Taking responsibility means never blaming anyone else for anything you are being..... doing.... having, or feeling.
My understanding is that to love, we need to be able to totally surrender to the living/dying nature of this world.
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Asperger's syndrome has probably been an important and valuable characteristic of our species throughout evolution.
Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.
The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology.
The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.
Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason.
Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
Responsibility is fostered by allowing children a voice and wherever indicated a choice in matters that affect them.
Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.
There is no single truth, but each of the scholarly disciplines has methods which lead one ever closer to the truth.
While I’ve worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.
While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.
I am basically a supporter of Barack Obama - it is not easy to be a post-partisan president in a hyper-partisan era.
Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.
Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.
We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs.
A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.
I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.
Never hear what somebody thinks about you, you'll live longer. Hear that they're in pain. Don't hear their analysis.
We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.
The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.
The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.
I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.
When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.
The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.
The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards
I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.
We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.
Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world.
Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends.
Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear.
I mean somebody with the wit and the guts to go and do and create. And, that I believe is what education is all about
The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.
I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.
During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.
If you get something for nothing, part of you may be pleased, but part of you moves your hand to give something back.
His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)
If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.
If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?