“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”
-Erich Fromm
“We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.”
-Seneca
“The issue is not that you get symptoms – it’s what you do with the symptoms that you get.”
-Fred Penzel
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
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.”
-Ivan Pavlov
(Note: Related to psychology because of his classical conditioning…
“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men…”
-Rollo May
“Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.”
- Soren Kierkegaard
“It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
- Abraham Maslow
“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