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You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else. Slowly, she learned that each of us grown-ups has as much and as little power as the other, and that we had best learn to take care of ourselves.(83) -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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Openness to my own dreams puts me in touch with the oldest, most human aspects of who I am; it helps me find my place in the community of man. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and becoming who he or she really is. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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For a long time now I have trusted my dreaming self as wiser than that waking self whose head is cluttered with reason and practicalities, so busy trying to control things that he sometimes forgets that the heart has reasons that reason does not know. When I dream, I never forget to trust myself. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without; like it or not, she must face her losses and her helplessness to undo them. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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Each of us is ultimately alone. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim's sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be his own man, remain in exile, and belong to himself. He must pay attention to his own feelings and to the meaning of what he does, if he is to be for himself, and yet for others as well. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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And so, it is not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he really wants is to remain the same and to get the therapist to make him feel better. (4) -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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All significant battles are fought within self. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7) -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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If outrageous imagination is the wine of madness, then come fill my cup. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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You can't get there from here, and besides there's no place else to go. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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Sometimes it seems to me that in this absurdly random life there is some inherent justice in the outcome of personal relationships. In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to give. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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We are all born into families and cultures we didn't choose, given names we didn't pick, instructed in behaviour and values we might not have freely chosen, and too often we end up expected to live lives designed by others. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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Love is more than simply being open to experiencing the anguish of another person's suffering. It is the willingness to live with the helpless knowing that we can do nothing to save the other from his pain. (23) -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63) -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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Again and again I find that my own inner counselor, my secret dreaming self, is not only wise and helpful but usually amusing as well. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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Often things are as bad as they seem. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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It is, of course, necessary to have rules and procedures if we wish to accomplish large and complex tasks, but the question of whether or not it is worth the cost must be perennially re-examined. (117) -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105) -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty. (10) -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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There appear to be many people who chose to go crazy (or become alcoholics, addicts, criminals, suicides) rather than have to bear the pain and ambiguity of a life situation that they have decided that they cannot stand. (98) -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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He may only get to keep that which he is willing to let go of. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are born into a disordered world, into a family we did not choose, into circumstances we would have had somewhat improved, and we are even called by a name we did not select. (40) -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when my eyes are closed, so that I may see clearly. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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It is not possible to know how much is just enough, until we have experienced how much is more than enough. (64) -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared -- Sheldon B. Kopp