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Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.
I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus.
There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.
The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.
Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.
Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?
In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them.
You can't hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain.
The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding.
Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise.
Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills
Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.
The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology.
Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future.
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.
Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.
In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.
The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time.
Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings.
Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.
Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.
If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.
Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.
I'm always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.
If we want to be compassionate we must be conscious of the words we use. We must both speak and listen from the heart.
Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.
How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse.
The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.
Social change involves helping people see new options for making life wonderful that are less costly to get needs met.
If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.
We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.
The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
When I'm attached, I find that I don't see the other person as clearly because I'm more caught up in what I'm wanting.
Our kids go to school and they come out feeling not intelligent, not desirable, not attractive or appealing to others.
By taking the time to explore charged memories in therapy we might uncover feelings that have been buried for decades.
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one directionally, without regret or reservation.
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process
Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.
The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.
What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.
Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.
Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am.
Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!