What kind of relationships do you want?
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“The realisation of any present shortcomings is unbearable for anybody harassed by dictatorial shoulds,” Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth “You mustn’t put chewing gum in your sister’s hair.” I remember saying that to my little son, along with a series of explanations why his sister’s hair was not the best place to land that …
“I've got a magic charmThat I keep up my sleeve,I can walk the ocean floorAnd never have to breathe,” “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” by Maya Angelou “Should I do this or not?” Tell me you didn’t ask yourself this question when it came to buying a house, having a child, getting married or divorced, accepting …
" 'Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.' (...) 'Alas,' said Sancho, 'those be not giants, but windmills.' " Cervantes, Don Quixote One thing we love about electronic devices is the certainty that, by pressing a single button, we get …
Francis and Margot Macomber seem to be a happy couple: young, good-looking, famous, rich, envied and admired. Except they’re not what they seem to be. Their marriage is riddled with crises (he drinks, she has affairs), yet they remain stuck with each other for 11 years as they have believe they have a solid realtionship: …
"One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your liniting beliefs." Nathaniel Branden, The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem "Would you eat a worm? Or press the button and shock yourself?" You probably wouldn't expect to be asked such bizarre questions – but how would you answer anyway? If you say, "I'd never do that," …
Cast Away has Chuck as the main character who, surviving a plane crash, ends up on a deserted island. Having accidentally cut his hand, Chuck hits a volleyball and notices that the handprint resembles a human face. He touches it up and thus, the volleyball becomes his inseparable friend, Wilson, whom he talks to and …
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Late in the evening, a woman sits at a table in an empty restaurant, staring into her cup of coffee. Behind her is a window as large as a wall through which one sees nothing of the city’s life. This black rectangle intensely reflects two rows of ceiling lamps. Edward Hopper’s painting “Automat” (1927) conveys …
What kind of relationships do you want? 