Quotes of: Maria Keyword

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

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.

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

My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is not happiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice.

Spontaneous Healing

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

Maria, groaning for scraps, would drape his head on my feet as I ate, trying to camouflage himself as my napkin or the rug.

The Tragedy of Arthur

Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?

Toward a Psychology of Being

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

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

Pioneer Work In Opening The Medical Profession To Women

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

I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.

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

Give rejection the finger, and rejection gives it back.

The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

My dad has always been my coach. And I've spent so much time with him. So he's one of my best friends. And I can talk to him about everything.

Caroline Wozniacki

I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people.

Daphne Guinness

I grew up when comics were only sold in food markets and news stands, so the direct market is vital to me. The best way to make it stronger is if everybody buys my comics in multiple copies before they buy any others.

Gilbert Hernandez