372 quotes found
“Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the Think buttons.”
“Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.”
“Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.”
“Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic...”
“Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.”
“We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers...”
“How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his or her own mind, a talent psychologists call m...”
“A weakling is incapable of sincerity.”
“Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. ”
“Any failure we could suffer throughout our lives, will turn into little successes if we take the right path, keep walking.”
“What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.”
“Dont put people, or anything else, on pedestals, not even your children. Avoid global labels such as genius or weirdo. Realize those closest get the benefit of the doubt and so do the most beautifu...”
“It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.”
“This explosive psychological 'sneaking' occurs when a woman suppresses large parts of self into the shadows of the psyche. In the view of analytical psychology, the repression of both negative and ...”
“All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.”
“It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.”
“One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.”
“I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.”
“The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger.”
“In northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and does not go hunting, and, when the other men are out of the village, ta...”
