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#1

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: happiness, loneliness, melancholy, philosophy, psychology

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#2

“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society. He cannot help doubting himself and his own convictions, if not his sanity. He cannot help suffering, even though he can experience moments of joy and clarity that are absent in the life of his "normal" contemporaries. Not rarely will he suffer from neurosis that results from the situation of a sane man living in an insane society, rather than that of the more conventional neurosis of a sick man trying to adapt himself to a sick society. In the process of going further in his analysis, i.e. of growing to greater independence and productivity,his neurotic symptoms will cure themselves.”
― Erich fromm, The Art of Being

tags: humanism, philosophy, psychoanalysis, psychology

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#3

“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being

tags: assumptions, hammer, instrumentalism, problem-solving, psychology, science, temptation

1084 likes

#4

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

tags: psychology

1224 likes

#5

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

tags: psychology, science, social-behavior

931 likes

#6

“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

tags: inspirational, psychology

764 likes

#7

“Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”
― Sigmund Freud

tags: psychology, thoughts

683 likes

#8

“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
― Clive James

tags: logic, psychology, science

517 likes

#9

“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.”
― Frantz Fanon

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#10

“When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

tags: consciousness, honesty, human-nature, lying, man, penalize, psychology, punishment, reaction, response, self-defense, unconscious-mind

453 likes

#11

“Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.”
― Dr. Asa Don Brown

tags: counsel, counsellor, counselor, humanity, joy, kindness, love, peace, psychological, psychology, self-esteem, self-talk, self-worth, spiritual-indwelling, spiritual-life, spirituality

354 likes

#12

“Although many of us are struggling against the same oppressive powers worldwide, we are all made to think of each other as enemies rather than allies in this global struggle. We have been separated from each other by the most misleading notion that some of us are citizens of the “First World”, while others are sub-humans from the “Third World”. I dreamed of a time when we all realize that we live in one world not three worlds as politicians and warmongers want us to believe.”
― Louis Yako

tags: human-connection, misinformation, propaganda, solidarity, third-world, world-peace

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#13

“Butterfly Kisses

Aged imperfections
stitched upon my face
years and years of wisdom
earned by His holy grace.
Quiet solitude in a humble home
all the family scattered now
like nomads do they roam.
Then a gift
sent from above
a memory
pure and tangible
wrapped in innocence and
unquestioning love.
A butterfly kiss
lands gently upon my cheek
from an unseen child
a kiss most sweet.
Heaven grants grace
and tears follow
as youth revisits
this empty hollow.”
― Muse, Enigmatic Evolution

tags: affection, aging, alzheimers, alzheimers-elder-care, butterfly, communication, dementia, family, grand-parents, growing-old, human-connection, inspiration, kiss, life, love, memories, parental, poem, poetry, prose, relationships

5 likes

#14

“Now, see, that's why everybody wants Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy.' Dovey's phone buzzed, and she laughed, ignoring it. 'The trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

tags: 304, friends, human-connection, internet, online, social-media

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#15

“What could we do? What should we do? 'There are no prescriptions,' Luria wrote, 'in a case like this. Do whatever your ingenuity and your heart suggest. There is little or no hope of any recovery in his memory. But a man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibilities, moral being - matters of which neuropsychology cannot speak. And it is here, beyond the realm of an impersonal psychology, that you may find ways to touch him, and change him. [...] Neuropsychologically, there is little or nothing you can do; but in the realm of the Individual, there may be much you can do.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

tags: human-connection, medicine, neurology, psychology

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#16

“لم يعد شكلي الخارجي خارقا. ومن جانب اخر لم اكن اراه معيبا. لم اخش اي شيء, موضوعية ومجردة في كل احكامي وحرة بوداعة من مختلف الاوهام التي تنعم بها قلة التجربة على الشباب. باختصار رأيت نفسي فيلسوفة محنكة متنكرة بشكل فتاة صغيرة”
― Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso

tags: بيكاسو, حياتي-مع-بيكاسو, فرانسواز-جيلو

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#17

“حينما اعمل اترك جسدي وراء الباب مثلما يخلع المسلمون احذيتهم قبل الدخول الى المسجد”
― Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso

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#18

“As I was growing up, whenever anything frightened me in any degree, it fascinated me at the same time. I felt the need of going too far simply to prove to myself that I was capable of it.”
― Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso

tags: capable, fascinate, frighten, prove

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#19

“In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?”
― Carl R. Rogers

tags: healing, psychology, psychotherapy, self-knowledge, therapy

226 likes

#20

“All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.”
― Asa Don Brown

tags: acceptance, admiration, american, canadian, counseling, encouraging-and-empowering-girls, females, forgiveness, human-rights, love, psychology, therapy, trusting, women

180 likes

#21

“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: goal, goals, gratitude, happiness, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, leader, leadership, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking

4717 likes

#22

“Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: challenge, enjoy-the-journey, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, keep-moving-forward, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, move-on, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking

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