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Category: psychology

Posted on May 14, 2023

“To see what is in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle.”—George Orwell, English novelist, 1903-1950

Posted on April 14, 2023April 13, 2023

“The onset and the waning of love make themselves felt in the uneasiness experienced at being alone together.”—Jean de la Bruyére, French philosopher, 1645-1696

Posted on March 27, 2023

“If you love it enough, anything will talk to you.”—George Washington Carver, American agricultural scientist, 1864-1943

Posted on January 9, 2023

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”—Marcel Proust, French novelist, 1871-1922

Posted on December 17, 2022December 20, 2022

“He that hath no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.”—Thomas Fuller, English physician, 1654-1734

Posted on December 12, 2022December 14, 2022

“Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.”—Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet, 1802-1850

Posted on December 6, 2022December 5, 2022

“Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?”—Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French maxim author, 1613-1680

Posted on December 3, 2022December 3, 2022

“It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper, so cry away.”—Charles Dickens, English writer & social critic, 1812-1870

Posted on November 25, 2022November 25, 2022

“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.”—Milan Kundera, Czech writer, 1929–

Posted on November 25, 2022November 24, 2022

“Intimacy requires courage, because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.”—Rollo May, American psychologist, 1909-1994

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