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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

To our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need.
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Grudge Hook Meeting Mother Need never
We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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Hatred Most Self Stupid
It is as if to say: if these are not valued – if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing – are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad.
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Child Cultivated Encourage Feeling Form Reward Speaking Valued Wanting
To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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Faith Keep Recognition Recognizable Stay
To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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Discover Grow Growing Up Unequal
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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Adulthood Believe Childhood Religion Solution
The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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Child Children Independent People Self Try
The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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Child Doubt Food Hide Love
The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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Access Child Children Finding might Object Obstacle
We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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Ourselves Spot Tyrannized Unacceptable Whatever
One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
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Change Discover Life Psychoanalytic Thing Treatment Yourself
we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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Continually Look See Threat Unable Unwilling
I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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Anand Thakur
When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe
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Comprehend Define Describe Ourselves Rather Recognize
You write to find out what you believe.
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Believe Find Out Writing
There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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Happy Marriage More Nothing Scandalous

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