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People who tend not to report illness are people who are highly competitive and do not want to admit they are not coping.
We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true.
We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.
Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality.
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.
Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.
This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man.
There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."
Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow.
We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material.
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.
If we did get a divorce, the only way my husband would find out about it is if they announced it on Wide World of Sports.
Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.
Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.
Your nature is not the problem. The problem is that you have become alienated from your nature -- from your power source.
For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.
Keep in mind that other people's actions can never 'make' you feel any certain way. Feelings are your warning indicators.
NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.
To practice the process of conflict resolution, we must completely abandon the goal of getting people to do what we want.
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.
When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we're getting a lot of little rewards throughout the day.
I believe that living out loud and not letting fear hold you back is the key to the fullest, most rewarding life possible
Personal space refers to an area with invisible boundaries surrounding a person's body into which intruders may not come.
Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.
If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny.
The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.
I learned to focus my energy on high-quality, long-term projects rather than lower-quality projects with quicker payoffs.
Saying yes means getting up and acting on your belief that you can create meaning and purpose in whatever life hands you.
I believe that if something is troubling you, simply start from where you are and take the action necessary to change it.
Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.
What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.
The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.
Biology can be said to define possibilities but not determine them; it is never irrelevant but it is also not determinant.
Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens.
I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war.
The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.
Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.
Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.
How can we, with our adult minds, know what will be interesting? If you follow the child...you can find out something new.
The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.
Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.
I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.
We are greatly in need of specific research in this area of schizophrenic experience to help us understand Mesolithic man.
But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.
A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.