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    Honoré de Balzac
    “It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
    tags: gossip, psychology, remaining-silent, reticence, silence
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    An intelligent person can rationalize anything; a wise person doesn't try.
    “An intelligent person can rationalize anything; a wise person doesn't try.”
    ― Jen Knox, Chaos Magic
    tags: fiction-writer, flash-fiction, intelligence, jen-knox, philosphy-of-life, psychology, wisdom
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    Bisco Hatori
    “We're always contradicting ourselves.
    We want people to tell us apart....
    ...yet we don't want them to be able to.
    We want people to get to know us...
    ...but we also want them to keep their distance.
    We've always longed for someone to accept us...
    But we never believed there'd be anyone who would accept our twisted ways.
    That's why we'll stay locked up tight...
    ...in our own little private world...
    ...and throw away the key, so that no one can ever hurt us.”
    ― Bisco Hatori, Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 9
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    Douglas Adams
    “Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: power-of-words, psychology
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    Asa Don Brown
    “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

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    Erich Fromm
    “If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.”
    ― Erich Fromm
    tags: psychology
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    William Gibson
    “When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
    ― William Gibson, Zero History
    tags: design, engineering, psychoanalysis, psychology
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    Stephen King
    “A person can't change all at once.”
    ― Stephen King, The Stand
    tags: psychology
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    Sun Tzu
    “To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: art-of-war, intimidation, peace, psychology, strategy, victory, war
    383 likes

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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
    tags: psychology
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    C.G. Jung
    “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
    ― Carl G. Jung
    tags: life, psychology
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    Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky
    “Through others we become ourselves.”
    ― Lev S. Vygotsky
    tags: development, educatin, identity, imitation, psychology, self-awareness
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is many things, but he is not rational.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: psychology
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    Robert Greene
    “...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.”
    ― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power
    tags: power, power-of-words, psychology
    349 likes

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    Richard Adams
    “Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.”
    ― Richard Adams, Watership Down
    tags: psychology
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    Socrates
    “Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: philosophy-of-life, psychology, relationships
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    Irvin D. Yalom
    “Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies, too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?”
    ― Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
    tags: psychology
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    Charles Dickens
    “Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
    tags: psychology
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    Saul Bellow
    “One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.”
    ― Saul Bellow, Herzog
    tags: existentialism, psychology, true-to-life
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    Alan W. Watts
    “One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts, Psychotherapy East and West
    tags: mindfulness, psychology
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: happiness, human-nature, psychology, social-commentary
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls
    tags: fear, memory, psychology
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    Graham Greene
    “We forget very easily what gives us pain.”
    ― Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear
    tags: psychology
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    Asa Don Brown
    “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

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    Sigmund Freud
    “My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
    tags: inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, love, lovers, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology, romance
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    Jeffery Deaver
    “She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.”
    ― Jeffery Deaver, The Bodies Left Behind
    tags: belief, foolishness, psychology, truth
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    Douglas Adams
    “Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: psychology
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    John Berger
    “When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.”
    ― John Berger
    tags: childhood, psychology, suffering
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    Brené Brown
    “It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.”
    ― Brené Brown
    tags: advertising, media, perfectionism, photoshopped, psychology, wellbeing
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    Keith Ablow
    “Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.”
    ― Keith Ablow, Denial
    tags: psychology
    72 likes



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