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Favorite Carl Jung Quotes

Embrace the dark to find the light

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Favorite Sigmund Freud Quotes

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth […]

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Favorite Nelson Mandela Quotes

Inspiring wisdom from a truly great person.

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Quotes to Ponder #35

The more one judges, the less one loves. Balzac

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Quotes to Ponder #18

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. James Baldwin

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Project Gutenberg Under 100 #2 The Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve

Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve (1685-1755) She was born and raised in a powerful protestant French family. Now largely forgotten, she was one of the most prolific and commercially successful writers of her time. She wrote fairy tales as well as novels. The book that is considered her masterpiece is called La Jardinière de Vincennes. The title we most remember […]

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Quotes to ponder #1

Every rose has it’s thorns, but there are plenty of thorns without roses. Arthur Schopenhauer