"The healthy mind moderates and modulates to get to the center of what temporarily eludes it."
Hal Brickman
"To expand your perspective beyond the minute requires, every now and then, a well-placed minute."
Hal Brickman
"Burn the doubts of others
And find the warmth within your soul."
Allie Rose Brickman
"Man knows much more than he understands."
Alfred Adler
"A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses."
Eric Berne
Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost."
Anna Freud
"It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost."
Anna Freud
"You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time."
M. Scott Peck
"In my early professionals 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 Rogers
"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."
Carl Rogers
"It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting."
Harry Stack Sullivan
"When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about."
Harry Stack Sullivan
"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."
M. Scott Peck
"Too much rumination can lead to ruination."
Hal Brickman
"Good art is borne from intuition. Great art springs from intuition and calculation."
Hal Brickman
"The idea is to the artist what the mother is to the infant. An evolving entity."
Hal Brickman
"Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves."
Nathaniel Branden
"There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity."
Nathaniel Branden
"A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life."
Samuel Butler
"Learn what you live and live what you learned."
Hal Brickman
"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challanged to change ourselves."
Hal Brickman
"Have you taken time for your Self lately to invigorate, luxuriate, restore, replenish, rebalance at the core because if your cells could speak, they would tell you to resist the latest addition to your to do list."
Hal Brickman
"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy."
Oliver Goldsmith
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them make them."
George Bernard Shaw
"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them."
Phyllis Bottome
"I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."
Erich Fromm
"I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made."
James Hillman
"A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration."
Kurt Lewin
"Men and women--even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers."
Mark Twain
"Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size."
Mark Twain
"We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking."
Mark Twain
"I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets"
D.H. Lawrence
"The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection."
D.H. Lawrence
"Many women today feel a sadness we cannot name. Though we accomplish much of what we set out to do, we sense that something is missing in our lives and --- fruitlessly --- search 'out there' for the answers. What's often wrong is that we are disconnected from an authentic sense of self."
Emily Hancock
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth--and that we ha ve no way of knowing when our time is up--that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"My business is not to remake myself, but make the absolute best of what God made."
Robert Browning
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how....The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."
Agnes De Mille
"There is only one journey. Going inside yourself."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"It is the first mild day of March. Each minute sweeter than before. There is a blessing in the air."
William Wordsworth
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."
Doris Mortman
"It's never too late to be what you might have been."
George Eliot
"Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up."
- Billy Joel
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions."
- Mark Twain
"The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can."
- Robert Cushing
"Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do."
- Menander
"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself."
- Hecato, Greek philosopher
"If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves."
- Thomas Edison
"Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire."
- Samuel Johnson
"Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life."
- Leo Buscaglia
"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."
- Mark Twain
"Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day."
- Barbara De Angelis
"A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crisis."
- Andre Maurois
"Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up."
- Billy Joel
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions."
- Mark Twain
"The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can."
- Robert Cushing
"Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do."
- Menander
"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself."
- Hecato, Greek philosopher
"If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves."
- Thomas Edison
"Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire."
- Samuel Johnson
"Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life."
- Leo Buscaglia
"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."
- Mark Twain
"A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crisis."
- Andre Maurois
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