Quotes of: Abraham-lincoln Keyword

The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.

Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison

You’re the one thing I want the most in the world yet the one thing I cannot have. Because to have you completely would be impossible. You can’t go where I walk.

Existence

He may have stolen my heart or had he taken my soul? I couldn’t be sure but I refused to let him have my pride too.

Existence

There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is--right here, right now--or you're someplace else.

The First Rule of Ten

It is a fundamental misperception," Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.

The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals

I didn't know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core.

The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals

I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language.

The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals

But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.

Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths

Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.

Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

It is a full-time job to cope with alien elements from both interpersonal sources and societal influences.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

Obedience to Authority

The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.

Obedience to Authority

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

My Quest for Beauty

The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become.

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

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

Social Learning Theory

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

The Peter Principle

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha