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492 Psychologist Quotes

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Any Cannot Childhood Father
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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Been Call Degree Happiness
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Derives Desires Fact Falls
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The ego is not master in its own house.

Ego House Master Own
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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

Act Affect Anxiety Birth
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Being Entirely Exercise Good
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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Become Give God Grown
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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Any Before Civilization Gift
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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

Every Forcing Him Life
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

Enmity Made Merely Misused
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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Attainable Becoming Cannot Come
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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

Analogy Decide Feel Home
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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Becomes Humble Love Loves
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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Humanness Love Our Work
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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

Away Complain Defend Her
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A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Act Disgrace Every Individual
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Angry Angry Person Began Cast
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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Another Civilized Civilized Society Disintegration
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Just A Sometimes Cigar
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Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

Love Is Work There
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If you can't do it, give up!

Give Up You Attitude
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Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Been Before Everywhere Find
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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
Crazy Dreams Most Often
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Conflicts Emotions Flowers Look
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Above Bulk Iceberg Like
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Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

Belief Forced Just No-One
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Been Conqueror Favorite Feeling
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Where id was, there ego shall be.

Ego ID Shall Where
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The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

Itself May Nature Unconscious
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Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

Directed Ends Place Proper
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

Every Expect Experience Important
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

Allowing Although Both Closet
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You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

Always Anything Away Being
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Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

Hear Me Only Saying
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

Contact God Inspiration Itself
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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

Bus Detroit Get Take
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

Always Becomes Born Important
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My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
Accident Belief Born Find
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From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

Away Born Deal Got
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When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.

Anywhere Free Go Got
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
Never Our Out Plans
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My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

Brings Closer Found God
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As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.

Barriers Beat Begin Between
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The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

Busy Doing Head Heart
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The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

Body Example I See Like
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I sit with people who are dying. I'm one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they're dying because I know I am going to be in the presence of Truth.

Am Because Being Dying
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

Being Breath Death Dying
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I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don't understand the world around me.

Around Because Feel Focus
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I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That's all I do all day.
All Day Day Every Guru
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Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

Being Death Down Get
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