Psychological Quotes
The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.
The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.
Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
I've never made a conscious effort to do anything about my psychological side. I just try to think positively and enjoy it.
Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.
Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness.
It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides.
Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it.
Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.
Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.
The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture.
A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psychological trauma for Israel as to endanger its survival.
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge.
What can convince modern man is not a historical or a psychological or a continually ever modernizing Christianity but only the unrestricted and uninterrupted message of Revelation.
It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.
There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes on himself.
Sound economic fundamentals coupled with a number of positive factors have partially offset the psychological impact of rising interest rates in Hong Kong.
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds.
She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.
Arguments do not erase prejudice any more than arguments erase scars, whether psychological or physical.
A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct.
Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.
Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.
Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.
Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.
If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.
The Subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what's real and what's imagined.
The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the metaphysical subject, the boundary (not a part) of the world.
A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.
It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.
Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, "1, 2, 3, 4."
None of Ho Chi Minh's colleagues was as dedicated to the use of political struggle, psychological warfare, and diplomatic means as he was.
If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped.
Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.
Thinking happy thoughts literally creates a positive chemical change in the brain which stimulates both positive physical and psychological benefits.
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.
Viktor Frankl said the Concentration camp survivalist said no matter how much mental or physical abuse had been given nobody could cause him to think about anything he didn't want to think about
I can't see any hope but a second front. The psychological effect would be great, even if they could not wade all the way to Berlin in 15 to 20 minutes.
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away
