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“Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood and throughout life. We require approval from those we respect. The kinship it creates lifts us to their level, a process referred to in self-psychology as transmuting internalization. Approval is a necessary component of self-esteem. It becomes a problem only when we give up our true self to find it. Then approval-seeking works against us.”

Giving Self Problem Names Process Levels Psychology Childhood Self Esteem Acceptance Giving Up Normal Seeking Esteem Lifts Approval True Self Components Kinship Perfectly Normal

Author:David Richo

“Marnie was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.”

People Film Psychology Childhood Effects Adults Sexuality Shocking Taboo

Author:Tippi Hedren

“Our survival as a human community may depend as much upon our nurture of love in infancy and childhood as upon the protection of our society from external threats.”

Love Humans May Community Psychology Society Childhood Depends Survival Threat Protection Our Society Nurture Infancy

Book:Every child's birthright: in defense of mothering

Source: Every child's birthright: in defense of mothering

“What I remember the most about my childhood is constant fear and "good food." I don't want to get into the greasy, buttery, deep-fried, fatty, sugary, meaty, barbecued details here, but with no knowledge of healthy lifestyles or positive psychology, time took its toll on me.”

Want Remember Psychology Childhood Healthy Constant Details Lifestyle Healthy Lifestyle Tolls Good Food Positive Psychology Fatty

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.”

People Believe Motivation Evil Psychology Childhood Likes

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”

Knows Want Inspirational Children Stills Felt Psychology Childhood Hints Memories Dreams Reflections Child Psychology

Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.”

People Children Psychology Childhood Nostalgic

Author:Bill Watterson

“Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.”

Believe Made Choices Belief Psychology Childhood Innocence

Book:The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic

Source: The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic