May 2013
8 posts
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Positive Persistence
“Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.”
~ Martin Seligman
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Tolerate Insecurity
“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”
-Erich Fromm
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Wisdom Through Adversity
“We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.”
-Seneca
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What You Do
“The issue is not that you get symptoms – it’s what you do with the symptoms that you get.”
-Fred Penzel
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Endings
Endings http://wp.me/s2DWVC-endings “In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it.”
-Martin Seligman
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Pavlov
Pavlov http://wp.me/s2DWVC-pavlov “While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things. Don’t become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.”
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It's Like Salt-Water
“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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"...center of strength..."
“Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men…”
-Rollo May
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April 2013
23 posts
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"Life is not a problem..."
“Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.”
- Soren Kierkegaard
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"It isn't normal..."
“It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
- Abraham Maslow View Post
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"If there is anything we wish to change..."
“If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”
-Carl Jung View Post
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Purpose?
Purpose? http://wp.me/s2DWVC-purpose
“To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.”
~ Nietzsche
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Learn
Learn http://wp.me/s2DWVC-learn“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.”
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross View Post
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Struggling Towards Serenity?
“In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.”
-Simone Weil
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Listening
“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.”
-Joyce Brothers
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Humility
Humility http://wp.me/s2DWVC-humility
“The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.”
~ Cicero
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Injustice
“Even injustice has it’s good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.”
- Albert Ellis
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To Accept Something
“To accept something is not the same as judging it good.”
- Marsha Linehan
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Laughter
Laughter http://wp.me/s2DWVC-laughter“So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.”
-Gordon W. Allport
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Courage
Courage http://wp.me/s2DWVC-courage“You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
-Epicurus
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Present Moment
“The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.”
-Abraham Maslow
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Your Shadow
“Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it.”
-Carl Jung
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Truth
Truth http://wp.me/s2DWVC-truth
“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”
~Aristotle
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Creative Minds
“Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training” – Anna Freud
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Listen
Listen http://wp.me/s2DWVC-listen “It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.”
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Direction?
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Goals?
Goals? http://wp.me/s2DWVC-goals
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
-Epictetus
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Acceptance?
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
-Carl Jung
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Anger
Anger http://wp.me/s2DWVC-anger
“If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.” – Epictetus
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March 2013
6 posts
"Live your life as..."
“Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.”
-Kant
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What We See & Know
“What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.”
- Jean Piaget
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Darkness
Darkness http://wp.me/s2DWVC-darkness “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
- Carl Jung View Post
"The real problem is..."
“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”
-B. F. Skinner
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Ellis on Love
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
-Albert Ellis
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Miserable?
“Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.”
- Boethius
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February 2013
3 posts
Means vs Meaning
“Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.”
-Viktor E. Frankl View Post
Adler on Precautions
“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”
- Alfred Adler
Related Reading
Adler on Wikipedia Alfred Adler: Theory and Application North American Society of Adlerian Psychology Adler at Goodreads View Post
Wundt
“The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.”
-Wilhelm Wundt
More on Wundt
Wundt on Wikipedia
Wundt in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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January 2013
2 posts
Weil on Attention
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
- Simone Weil
More on Simone Weil
Simone Weil on Wikipedia
Weil on Goodreads
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Fromm on Loss
“If I am what I have, and if I lose what I have, who then am I?”
-Erich Fromm
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December 2012
5 posts
Life itself still remains a very effective...
“Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.”
-Karen Horney
Related Articles
International Karen Horney Society
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Kierkegaard on Going Forwards & Backwards
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-Soren Kierkegaard
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Kierkegaard: “how the world will come to an end” (lifeondoverbeach.wordpress.com)
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Not…
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...sane and satisfactory answer...
“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
-Erich Fromm
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Good
“The fact is that people are good. Give people affection and security, and thay will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
-Abraham Maslow
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Psychiatrist Karen Horney on Concern
“Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.”
-Karen Horney
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November 2012
4 posts
Seneca →
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
-Seneca
"By sticking it out through tough times..."
“By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy.”
-Albert Bandura View Post shared via WordPress.com
Nietzsche on Adversity
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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