Sigmund Freud Quotes

What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?

Sigmund Freud

• Misery
• Joys
• Long Life
• Deliverer

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• Let the designer lean upon the staff of the line - line determinative, line emphatic, line delicate, line expressive, line controlling and uniting.

  

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• Let me put it in a positive light, with that archive [of Anne Romaine], we have gained extensive knowledge about how [Alex] Haley and Malcolm X actually worked and how the book, the autobiography, was constructed.

  

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• Self-appraisals of efficacy are reasonably accurate, but they diverge from action because people do not know fully what they will have to do, lack information for regulating their effort, or are hindered by external factors from doing what they can.

  

  Albert Bandura
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• One of the things we're trying to do more of is not just take money from corporate partnerships, but get more involved in the business side for when I retire. So Puma are going to make me an ambassador for life. I have a clothing line coming out. I am investing a lot in housing in Jamaica, buildings for rent.

  

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• To fight is to face death once more, perhaps the total annihilation of their kind. But to run... is that not also a kind of annihilation?

  

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• He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.

  

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• We have a God-given commission, but it is not a commission to be self-righteous know-it-alls- quite the contrary. Our work in God's world begins with the acknowledgment that we are not God, and that our most bitter rivals are made in God's image.

  

  John C. Danforth

• Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

  

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• Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

  

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• Of course I should love to throw a toothbrush into a bag, and just go, quite vaguely, without any plans or even a real destination. It is the Wanderlust.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
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  • Plans
  • Destination

• I am at peace, and people become fair by themselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Peace
  • Fair

• Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Want
  • Possessions
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• Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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• Something had to happen between them. Two people cannot play a conspiracy for so long, and play it each on his own. There came a moment, when, in the dross of lies, the truth, known to them both, had to be asserted, and for their own sanity, shared.

  

  Bernice Rubens
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• People dressed up like me, at the comic-con in San Antonio. It's very rewarding.

  

  Windham Rotunda
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• All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

  

  Aristotle
  • Action
  • Happiness
  • Human

• What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Misery
  • Joys
  • Long Life