R. D. Laing was a Scottish psychiatrist whot wrote extensively on mental illness.
“Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.”
- R.D. Laing (1927-1989)
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Carl Jung, famed Swiss psychiatrist, was innovative in his work in a number of arenas, including acknowledging those aspects of one’s psyche that are often avoided as well as his exploration of using dreams to better understand hidden aspects of the self.
“Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
- Carl Jung (1875-1961)
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Andy Rooney, humorist and fairly cantankerous commentator for the CBS news program ’60 Minutes’ speaks gently about love. Three quotes from Rooney.
“I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.”
- Andy Rooney (1919- )
“I've learned ... that when you're in love, it shows.”
- Andy Rooney (1919- )
“I've learned ... that a smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.”
- Andy Rooney (1919- )
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Two quotes from Anatole France, a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921.
“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.”
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
“Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.”
- Chinese proverb
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
American psychologist, Abraham Maslow, is most widely known for his proposal that there is a hierarchy of human needs ranging from basic physical needs to what he called “self actualization.” Many therapists consider him to be the father of ‘humanistic psychology’.
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.”
- Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Two quotes from Anatole France, a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921.
“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.”
“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
“Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.”
- Chinese proverb
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
A quotation by American historian, attorney, author, professor and the ‘Librarian of Congress’ appointed by President Ford.
“Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.”
- Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004)
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Albert Schweitzer won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1955 for his philosophy of ‘reverence for life’.
“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.”
- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
One success quotation and one humorous quote from a well-known statesman and literary figure, Benjamin Disraeli, who was the first - and so far the only person of Jewish heritage - to be prime minister of Great Britain.
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
“An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.”
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
American psychologist, Abraham Maslow, is most widely known for his proposal that there is a hierarchy of human needs ranging from basic physical needs to what he called “self actualization.” Many therapists consider him to be the father of ‘humanistic psychology’.
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.”
- Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Founder of the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, Karl Menninger was awarded the American Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter in 1981.
“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand”.
- Karl Menninger (1893-1990)
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Over 1,800 years ago, the great Roman emperor, Marcus Aelius Aurelius, often wrote his meditations during wartime. Here is one that we in the 21st century may also wish to consider…
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.”
- Marcus Aelius Aurelius (121-180)
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Two quotations from an avant-garde and popular American poet, e.e.cummings, who is remembered as the predominant voice of twentieth century poetry.
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
“I imagine that yes is the only living thing.”
- e.e.cummings (1894-1962)
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Two quotes from Luther Burbank, American botanist who developed the Burbank russet potato, used exclusively for McDonald’s French fries.
“It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.”
“For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.”
- Luther Burbank (1848-1926)
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Coming from a long line of clerics, Samuel Butler was expected to become a minister. He chose to leave the church after a crisis of faith and emigrated to New Zealand, where he wrote books and farmed sheep.
“From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.”
- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
A Swiss psychiatrist and a founder of analytical psychology, Carl Jung believed our main task is to fulfill our deep innate potential. In all of his works, he emphasized the importance of harmony and balance. Here are three quotations from Jung.
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
- Carl Jung (1875-1961)
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
The American Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson was thought to be ‘a dull scholar’ as a child. He managed, however, to enter Harvard at the age of fourteen and graduate while still age eighteen.
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
The visionary architect R. Buckminster Fuller devoted his life to figuring our how humans could successfully live on “spaceship earth,” a phrase he invented and used in his book, ‘An Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth’.
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
~ ~ ~ ~ ~