Fears are educated into us and can, if we wish, be educated out.
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To know thyself must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.Karl A. Menninger
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
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Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.
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Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
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Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.
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Man can't help hoping even if he is a scientist. He can only hope more accurately.
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