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Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac. ↗

— Keith Ablow

#potential

your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

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He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running. ↗

— Richard Adams

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Man is many things, but he is not rational. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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By declaring that man is responsible and must actualize the potential meaning of his life, I wish to stress that the true meaning of life is to be discovered in the world rather than within man or his own psyche, as though it were a closed system. I have termed this constitutive characteristic "the self-transcendence of human existence." It denotes the fact that being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself--be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himself--by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love--the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#psychology #inspirational

Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two persons, (3) the immediate situation in which they find themselves and (4) the larger social, cultural and historical situation surrounding them. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#culture #dialogue #psychology #relationships #sociology

Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased. ↗

— Philip Rieff

#religion #faith

We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind, is to bring upon us an apocalypse of the Soul. ↗

— Ilyas Kassam

#mind #psychology #soul #thought #apocalypse

Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework... ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#psychologist #psychology #ptsd #recovery #research