Quotes of: William-shakespeare Keyword

Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.

The Science and Fine Art of Natural Hygiene

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

The Meaning of Madness

Family is just accident, Jessie. It's nothing personal, hon. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

'night, Mother

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

Her true hope was that something would happen in the course of her time abroad that would mean she need never take the place. What that 'something' was she had no idea.

Life After Life

How complex, untrustworthy, and important our stories are. We will never tell you the true story of our lives.

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

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

We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. . . . Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

It’s hard when you’re missing your family. You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

You cannot have a really terrific library without at least one terrific librarian, the way you cannot have a really terrific bedroom unless you can lock the door.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

The story of the book filled the car with exciting adventures of the sort that are fun to read about, so we didn’t have to think about the exciting adventures of the sort that are no fun to live through.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

When you find the sort of people who will show up to give you a ride exactly when they've promised to do so, hold on to them for dear life.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

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

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

The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be the slave of her husband.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

Some people think destiny is something you cannot escape, such as death or a curdled cheesecake, both of which always turn up sooner or later.

The Penultimate Peril

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