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    Sigmund Freud
    “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: emotion, expression, freud, repression, self-expression
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    Baruch Spinoza
    “I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them.”
    ― Baruch Spinoza, Spinoza: Political Treatise
    tags: cancelling, contrapoints, humanity, love, philosophy, shame, understanding
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    Abraham H. Maslow
    “It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
    ― Abraham Harold Maslow
    tags: desire, psychology, self-awareness, understanding
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    Abraham H. Maslow
    “One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”
    ― Abraham Maslow
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    Abraham H. Maslow
    “A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be”
    ― Abraham Maslow
    tags: random
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    Abraham H. Maslow
    “We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.”
    ― Abraham Maslow
    tags: disbelief, explain, gods, good, heroes, sages, statesmen, supernatural, superstition, wisdom, wise
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    Abraham H. Maslow
    “What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
    ― Abraham Maslow
    tags: change
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    Irvin D. Yalom
    “Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.”
    ― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept
    tags: truth
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    Irvin D. Yalom
    “Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.”
    ― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept
    tags: death, life
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    Irvin D. Yalom
    “What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis. There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)”
    ― Irvin D. Yalom, Lying on the Couch
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    C.G. Jung
    “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: knowing-others, perception, self-awareness, understanding
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    C.G. Jung
    “Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: addiction, psyche, psychology
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    C.G. Jung
    “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    C.G. Jung
    “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
    tags: motivation
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
    tags: inspirational, motivational
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
    tags: nietzsche
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
    ― Victor Frankl, Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning
    tags: abnormal, frankl, meaning, viktor
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.”
    ― Viktor Emil Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Victor Hugo
    “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
    ― Victor Hugo
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    Mark Twain
    “I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: inspirational, positive, worries
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Carl R. Rogers
    “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
    ― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
    tags: counselling, paradox, self-awareness, self-improvement
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    Carl R. Rogers
    “People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.”
    ― Carl R. Rogers, A Way of Being
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    Carl R. Rogers
    “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
    ― Carl R. Rogers
    tags: knowledge
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
    42402 likes



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