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In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
Learning is not a task or a problem-it is a way to be in the world. Man learns as he pursues goals and projects that have meaning for him.
I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.
Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.
We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.
I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.
The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.
All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.
The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it.
We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.
The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities.
We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.
Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.
When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.
One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.
All good activities which encourage people to learn how to live with one another pleasantly and to develop a sense of humor improve living.
The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.
Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.
People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people’s actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or another.
The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.
We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.
When we give from a place of love, rather than from a place of expectation, more usually comes back to us than we could ever have imagined.
Aging allows us to drop the baggage. It is only through life experiences that our incredible power can be brought forward in all its glory.
From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking.
Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.
People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.
Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact
By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.
We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.
There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too.
Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.
Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.
Our vitality, and the vitality of each nation, rests on the sincerity and depth of the faith in the ideas which it announces, or pronounces.
It must be remembered that even though the ego is the individual's inaccurate concept of him- or herself, it seems to be what the person is.
If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.
If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave.
Students should learn about the long-standing values of truth, beauty, and goodness, think hard about them, and interrogate them skillfully.
Aptitude can show calling, but it isn't the only indicator. Ineptitude or dysfunction may reveal calling more than talent, curiously enough.
The initial organization of the brain does not depend that much on experience. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises.
I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.
I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.
Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty.