Paradox
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
—Carl Rogers
Irrationally
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves
—Carl Jung
Fall
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
—— F. Scott Fitzgerald (American novelist, "The Great Gatsby")
Autumn
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
—Albert Camus (French philosopher, author, and journalist)
Self-Reflection
“If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.”
—Abraham Maslow
Pathways
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.
—Carl Rogers
Education
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B. F. Skinner
Destiny
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
—Albert Ellis
Temptation
I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
—Abraham Maslow
Motivation
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
—William James