Roy Schafer quotes

Roy Schafer quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Empathy involves the inner experience of sharing in and comprehending the momentary psychological state of another person.”
-- Roy Schafer

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“I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.”
“It takes a great man to make a great listener”
“The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.”
“There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.”

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“I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.”
“If you have a good spine, the gods will chase you. Nobody has psychological or emotional problems, everyone has a bad spine.”
“If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms) or if you stop and then relapse.”
“There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.”
“The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.”
“It is not the State that orders us; but it is we who order the State!”

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