"Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn."

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"Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn."

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"Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time."

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"Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child."

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"I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth."

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"It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought."

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"The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves."

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"The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure."

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"There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all."

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"Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder."

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"Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation."

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"The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?""

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Make a difference about something other than yourselves."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

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"On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that."

Octavia Butler, American Writer

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"Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

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"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

Mark Twain, American Author

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