If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
IRVIN D. YALOMA free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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