“when you teach children to measure themselves from their success, they then measure themselves from their failure as well. Finally,”
― Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development
― Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development
“Poetic naturalism is a philosophy of freedom and responsibility. The raw materials of life are given to us by the natural world, and we must work to understand them and accept the consequences. The move from description to prescription, from saying what happens to passing judgment on what should happen, is a creative one, a fundamentally human act. The world is just the world, unfolding according to the patterns of nature, free of any judgmental attributes. The world exists; beauty and goodness are things that we bring to it.”
― The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
― The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
“the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable…. This is the genuine meaning of the Pauline-Lutheran doctrine of ‘justification by faith”
― The Courage to Be
― The Courage to Be
“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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