“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”
Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Personality Theorist
Martin Svoboda
Autore verificato @quick, membro dal 04 Aprile 2011
“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”
Carl R. Rogers (1902–1987) American psychologist
Person to person: The problem of being human: A new trend in psychology (1967)
Origine: page 187.
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Carl R. Rogers (1902–1987) American psychologist
Origine: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
“What is most personal is most universal.”
Carl R. Rogers (1902–1987) American psychologist
Origine: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
“If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.”
Timothy Leary (1920–1996) American psychologist
Changing My Mind, Among Others (1982)
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Has been attributed to Seneca since the 1990s (eg. Gregory K. Ericksen, (1999), Women entrepreneurs only: 12 women entrepreneurs tell the stories of their success, page ix.). Other books ascribe the saying to either Darrell K. Royal (former American football player, born 1924) or Elmer G. Letterman (Insurance salesman and writer, 1897-1982). However, it is unlikely either man originated the saying. A version that reads "He is lucky who realizes that luck is the point where preparation meets opportunity" can be found (unattributed) in the 1912 The Youth's Companion: Volume 86. The quote might be a distortion of the following passage by Seneca (who makes no mention of "luck" and is in fact quoting his friend Demetrius the Cynic):<blockquote>"The best wrestler," he would say, "is not he who has learned thoroughly all the tricks and twists of the art, which are seldom met with in actual wrestling, but he who has well and carefully trained himself in one or two of them, and watches keenly for an opportunity of practising them." — Seneca, On Benefits, vii. 1 http://thriceholy.net/Texts/Benefits4.html</blockquote> <br class="br">Disputed
“Worse than war is the very fear of war.”
peior est bello timor ipse belli.
Seneca the Younger Thyestes
Thyestes, line 572 (Chorus).
Tragedies
“For no man is free who is a slave to his body.”
Nemo liber est qui corpori servit.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCII: On the Happy Life
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Origine: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter II: On discursiveness in reading, Line 6.
“If you are wise, mingle these two elements: do not hope without despair, or despair without hope.”
Si sapis, alterum alteri misce: nec speraveris sine desperatione nec desperaveris sine spe.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Alternate translation: Hope not without despair, despair not without hope. (translated by Zachariah Rush).
Origine: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CIV: On Care of Health and Peace of Mind, Line 12
“Anything forced is not beautiful”
Xenophon (-430–-354 BC) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Origine: The Art of Horsemanship
“Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.”
André Breton (1896–1966) French writer
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924)
Contesto: After you have settled yourself in a place as favorable as possible to the concentration of your mind upon itself, have writing materials brought to you. Put yourself in as passive, or receptive, a state of mind as you can. Forget about your genius, your talents, and the talents of everyone else. Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that lead to everything. Write quickly, without any preconceived subject, fast enough so that you will not remember what you're writing and be tempted to reread what you have written. The first sentence will come spontaneously, so compelling is the truth that with every passing second there is a sentence unknown to our consciousness which is only crying out to be heard.