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I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.
Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.
Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.
The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.
I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.
The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.
We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil.
If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality.
Relationships help us to define who we are and what we can become. Most of us can trace our successes to pivotal relationships.
The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.
The individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making.
Our way of managing and leading, rewarding and judging people is totally out of tune with the fact that we are all individuals.
Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged.
Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.
It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.
I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better all the time.
I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on
How parents interact with each child as he or she enters the family circle determines in great part that child's final destiny.
This is why it is sometimes hard for introverts to find words: we really hate to compromise, and words are always a compromise.
We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.
The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external.
I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?
Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely.
The complaints which anyone voices against his mate indicate exactly the qualities which stimulated attraction before marriage.
People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.
Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion
For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.
A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
We talk a great deal about Russia today, and I'm afraid that in twenty years, we and Russia will be more similar than different.
In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation.
The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.
Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.
If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be cautious.
By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist.
Introverts are generally more sensitive to low-intensity stimuli - they are mentally alerted to inputs that extroverts may miss.
High taxes on guns and strong restrictions on their availability are the only realistic hope for avoiding many more Sandy Hooks.
Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.
The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.
Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
People no longer know how to apologize, which is particularly noticeable among athletes, politicians, and entertainment figures.
People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.
Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.
As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.
I made a pact with my three-year-old thumb-sucking daughter that if she stopped sucking her thumb, I would stop sucking my pipe.
All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection
To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.