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“The self-image is a premise, a base, or a foundation upon which your entire personality, your behaviour, and even your circumstances are built. Because of this our experiences seem to verify, and thereby strengthen, our self-images and a vicious or a beneficent cycle, as the case may be, is set up.”
― Psycho-Cybernetics
― Psycho-Cybernetics
“I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“It is not the child who is taught about love but the child who has experienced love that grows into a healthy, happy, well-adjusted adult. Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have experienced rather than what we have learned intellectually.”
― Psycho-Cybernetics
― Psycho-Cybernetics
“A plastic surgeon does not simply alter a man's face. He alters the man's inner self. The incisions he makes are more than skin deep. They frequently cut deep into the psyche as well.”
― Psycho Cybernetics
― Psycho Cybernetics
“The self-image is the key to human personality and human behaviour. Change the self-image and you change the personality and the behaviour.”
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