self-discovery Quotes

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don't know exactly what's going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what's inside of them without being part of them.

I suppose for a very long time I've been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

There were some great clinicians in the 20th century - great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius - there's a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.

Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that's true to some degree.

If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue?

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.