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“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’re ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.”

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Author:Daniel Gilbert

“Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses. Even if it thoroughly analyzes itself, psychology (and this is one of the dubious aspects of psychoanalysis) can, to be sure, recognize its flawed native characteristics, but it cannot eliminate them. Understanding (them) is not the same as overcoming (them) and, again and again, we see the wisest of human beings helpless in the fact of their small follies which everyone else observes with a smile.”

“Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.”

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Author:R. D. Laing

“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”

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Book:On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

“In the West the whole Western tradition of religion and psychology propounds, preaches, persuades people to have strong egos - because unless you have a strong ego, how can you survive? Life is a struggle; if you are egoless you will be destroyed. Then who will resist? Who will fight? Who will compete? And life is a continuous competition. Western psychology says: Attain to the ego, be strong in it.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.”

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Author:Robert Biswas-Diener

“"Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter"”

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Author:Christopher Peterson

“Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.”

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Book:The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche

Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche

“There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of our senses and our lack of full use of them. All human happiness is sensuous happiness.”

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Book:Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living

Source: Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living