You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.
- Topic: Awareness, Perception, Thinking
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
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The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.
The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.
Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.
I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.