 “... Laughter makes people glad they are alive ... more conscious of love, heightened with eros ... it lifts their sadness and severs them from anger ... they are made bigger, made better, more generous, more sensitive, that is sacred.Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run With The Wolves.
“Everybody’s had to fight to be free ... you don’t have to live like a refugee.”
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. "If we can’t laugh about it, then we’re not over it and it’s still got us.” Gerry Forde
Play could be termed dangerous because it may subvert the left-right hemispheric regular switching involved in maintaining social order. … Yet ... play reveals to us … the possibility of changing our goals and, therefore, the restructuring of what our culture states to be reality." Victor Turner
“Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”
Carl Jung
“Play, joy, laughter – these three put us in a place where anything is possible.”
GF
“People are the bottom line.”
GF
"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas."
"Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humour process is involved in changing them."
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves." Carl Jung
“Learning to love yourself … is the greatest love of all.” Whitney Houston
“Gradually the individual becomes himself – not a façade of conformity to others, not a cynical denial of all feeling, nor a front of intellectual rationality, but a living, breathing, feeling, fluctuating process – in short he becomes a person.” Carl Rogers Carl Jung
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases." Carl Jung
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” Carl Rogers
“It is the feeling of inferiority, inadequacy and insecurity that determines the goal of an individual’s existence.” Alfred Adler
“The greatest danger, that of losing one’s own self, may pass off quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, that of an arm, a leg, five dollars, etc., is sure to be noticed.” Soren Kierkegaard
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” David Viscott
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.” Carl Jung
Carl Jung
"The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man." GK Chesterton
“See a child walk across the room – notice the flexibility, curiosity, fascination, enjoyment, energy, freedom. Who stole our soul?” GF
“One minute of belly laughing is equal to the fitness gained from ten minutes of rowing. So join a rowing team then stand on the shore and laugh at them training.” GF
Carl Jung
“We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung
“We share 98 percent of our genetic makeup with chimpanzees … without creativity, it would be difficult indeed to distinguish humans from apes.” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“Emotional intelligence matters twice as much as technical and analytic skill combined for star performers … And the higher people move up in the company, the more crucial emotional intelligence becomes.” Daniel Goleman
“Happy marriages are based on a deep friendship. By this I mean a mutual respect for and enjoyment of each other’s company.” John M. Gottman
“The schizophrenic has this advantage – he can hear the voices of the personalities inside that are calling our tune.” GF
“Living with unresolved conflicts involves primarily a devastating waste of human energies, occasioned not only by the conflicts themselves but by all the devious attempts to remove them.” Karen Horney
“After millions of years of survival based on simple distinctions, it may simply be that we are biologically unprepared for the number of choices we face in the modern world.” Barry Schwartz
“The very happy people spend the least time alone and the most time socializing, and they are rated highest on good relationships by themselves and also by their friends.” Martin Seligman.
“We are not unlike the lobster … each time it expands from within, the confining shell must be sloughed off. It is left exposed and vulnerable until, in time, a new covering grows to replace the old.” Gail Sheehy
“More often than not, dealing constructively with tough topics and awkward situations strengthens a relationship. And that’s an opportunity too good to pass up.” Douglas Stone.
“Heaven has become for us the cosmic space of the physicists … But “the heart glows”, and a secret unrest gnaws at the roots of our being.” Carl Jung
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