David Seabury
David Seabury
David Seaburywas an American psychologist, author, and lecturer. While practicing as a consulting psychologist in New York City, he published fifteen books. He founded the Centralist School of Psychology, was the founder and president of the David Seabury School of Psychology, and was president of the Seabury University of Adult Education. In 1923 he married feminist journalist Florence Guy Woolston...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
CountryUnited States of America
stupid men giving
Tell a man something is bad, and he's not at all sure he wants to give it up. Describe it as stupid, and he knows it's the better part of caution to listen.
positive giving wish
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
love jealousy hate
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
men desire way
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...
feelings conflict modern
Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.
wise best-wishes action
A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
fear mistake self
Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.
truth facts speak
The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.
problem victim
Those who fume at their problems become their victims.
powerful fists weapons
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons...
art character practice
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
considerate considerate-and-caring be-considerate
He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.
lying keys doe
The key to most difficulties does not lie in the dilemmas themselves, but in our relationship to them.
love expression quality
Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.