Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.

Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.

Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its corollary. They are signals directing us toward goodness, safety, pleasure, and group survival.

The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life

To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.

We must live in groups; other people are like nutrients for us, and are absolutely essential for our survival.

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.