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In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.
Introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity, it is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel.
There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.
However impressed we may be with NVC concepts, it is only through practice and application that our lives are transformed.
You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.
We not only believe what we see, to some extent we see what we believe ...The implications of our beliefs are frightening.
Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.
Like the early days of the Internet, the dawn of personal genomics promises benefits and pitfalls that no one can foresee.
As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.'
My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.
You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.
There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth.
It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.
The world consists mainly of love slobs who need other people's approval. Most people don't live their own lives very well.
Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.
...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.
You will have no peace until you have discovered how to forgive yourself, to forgive other people and let them forgive you.
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition.
We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older...then it is very hard to change our minds
You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken blessed.
I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate
My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.
Loss means losing what was we want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
If I have a mission in life, it is to convince people that everyone is morally motivated - everyone except for psychopaths.
The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It’s really precious, and it’s really easy to lose.
The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.
In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief and they really need to be treated for depression.
I believe that love takes time. I believe there is such a thing as infatuation at first sight, but not love at first sight.
It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy.
The first note in that octave [of our cultural transformation], the do, was the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943.
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment.
A great many people fall in love with or feel attracted to a person who offers the least possibility of a harmonious union.
Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent.
We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.
People have to find their rhythm. Some people have need for more contact and time together and some people need more space.
People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem
People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.
We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.
Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.
The act of not discussing or confiding the event with another may be more damaging than having experienced the event per se.
The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.
There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.