Quotes of: Abraham-lincoln Keyword

...tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation. ... the window rosy with anemic November light.

The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals

Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Our real self is under siege by our anti-self.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

Man's Search for Himself

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

Man's Search for Himself

Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like.

The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

Obedience to Authority

Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.

Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child's True Potential

There is no meaningful "yes" unless the individual could also have said "no.

Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.

The Trauma of Everyday Life

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

The Trauma of Everyday Life

The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

Otto Rank

It's a journey, it's a fight everyday. There was a real effort to stay in the program... So far this has been a very successful rehab.

Peter Hobson

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.

Philip Zimbardo

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

Philip Zimbardo

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

Philip Zimbardo

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

Philip Zimbardo

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.

Philip Zimbardo

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

Sam Harris

Lucid dreaming lets you make use of the dream state that comes to you every night to have a stimulating reality.

Stephen LaBerge

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

Solomon Schechter