“Thus, judgments are our personal egoic reactions to the sights, sounds, feelings, and thoughts within our experience.”
― Inner Game of Tennis
― Inner Game of Tennis
“The player of the inner game comes to value the art of relaxed concentration above all other skills; he discovers a true basis for self-confidence; and he learns that the secret to winning any game lies in not trying too hard.”
― The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
― The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
“Care, responsibility, respect and knowledge are mutually interdependent. They are a syndrome of attitudes which are to be found in the mature person; that is, in the person who develops his own powers productively, who only wants to have that which he has worked for, who has given up narcissistic dreams of omniscience and omnipotence, who has acquired humility based on the inner strength which only genuine productive activity can give.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving
“Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a “standing in,” not a “falling for.” In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving
“To love somebody is not just a strong feeling—it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision?”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving
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