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““The news that reaches your The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.… Turn your eyes not to be relied on.… Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself!”first to know yourself!”

——Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud

““Loneliness does not come from having no Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”inadmissible.”

——Carl Carl JungJung

““Every pampered child becomes a hated Every pampered child becomes a hated child.… There is no greater evil than the child.… There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.”pampering of children.”

——Alfred AdlerAlfred Adler

““[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts … [Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts … Every neurotic … is at war with himself.”Every neurotic … is at war with himself.”

——Karen Karen HorneyHorney

““Dreams which are not interpreted are like Dreams which are not interpreted are like letters which have not letters which have not been opened.been opened.… Dreams are important … Dreams are important communications from ourselves to communications from ourselves to ourselves.”ourselves.”

——Erich Erich FrommFromm

““If you have to maintain self-esteem by If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.”you are extraordinarily unfortunate.”

——Harry Stack SullivanHarry Stack Sullivan

““Like a trapeze artist, the [adolescent] in Like a trapeze artist, the [adolescent] in the middle of vigorous motion must let the middle of vigorous motion must let go of his safe hold on childhood and go of his safe hold on childhood and reach out for a firm grip on adulthood, reach out for a firm grip on adulthood, depending for a breathless interval … depending for a breathless interval … on the reliability of those he must let go on the reliability of those he must let go of and those who will ‘receive’ him.”of and those who will ‘receive’ him.”

——Erik Erik EriksonErikson

““The good life is a process, not a state of The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.”being. It is a direction, not a destination.”

——Carl RogersCarl Rogers

““Growth is, in itself, a rewarding and exciting Growth is, in itself, a rewarding and exciting process.”process.”

——Abraham MaslowAbraham Maslow

““Everyone has a need for significance; and if Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can’t make that possible, or even we can’t make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.”obtained in destructive ways.”

——Rollo MayRollo May

““Since we think about ourselves so much of Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume … that the time, it is comforting to assume … that we really know the score.… [But] this is not we really know the score.… [But] this is not an easy assignment. [As] Santayana an easy assignment. [As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’”equation written out.’”

- Gordon Allport- Gordon Allport

““““[The trait theorist begins] by observing a [The trait theorist begins] by observing a preoccupation with a mirror which recalls the preoccupation with a mirror which recalls the legend of Narcissus, [invents] the adjective legend of Narcissus, [invents] the adjective ‘narcissistic’ and then the noun ‘narcissism,’ ‘narcissistic’ and then the noun ‘narcissism,’ and finally [asserts] that the thing and finally [asserts] that the thing presumably referred to by the noun is the presumably referred to by the noun is the cause of [this] behaviour.… But at no point cause of [this] behaviour.… But at no point in such a series [does he] make contact with in such a series [does he] make contact with any event outside the behaviour itself which any event outside the behaviour itself which justifies the claim of a causal connection.”justifies the claim of a causal connection.”

——B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner

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