academicchaosmuppet

graduate student in clinical psychology, running geek, and agent of chaos

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One person's suffering represents the suffering of the world. If you can help one person, you help the whole world.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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Twilight running views in Charlotte

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Evaluation by others is not a guide for me. The judgments of others, while they are to be listened to, and taken into account for what they are, can never be a guide for me. This has been a hard thing to learn...I have come to feel that only one person (at least in my lifetime, and perhaps ever) can know whether what I am doing is honest, thorough, open, and sound, or false and defensive and unsound, and I am that person. I am happy to get all sorts of evidence regarding what I am doing, and criticism (both friendly and hostile) and praise (both sincere and fawning) are a part of such evidence. But to weigh this evidence and to determine its meaning and usefulness is a task I cannot relinquish to anyone else.

Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person

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you can spend your life being cynical and “cool” and uncaring, or you can embrace the joy of staying passionate and loving things unashamedly and always, just always being amazed by the world.

— the library haunter 🦉 (@SketchesbyBoze) March 17, 2019

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Often the therapist is the only audience viewing great dramas and acts of courage. Such privilege demands a response to the actor. Though patients may have other confidants, none is likely to have the therapist's comprehensive appreciation of certain momentous acts.

Irvin Yalom, M.D., The Gift of Therapy

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Søren Kierkegaard