Psychology Quotes

My training makes me uneasy with a happy mystery.

At night we sort the energy that by day we sense.

We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.

Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.

It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal.

This book is dedicated to those who have died as a result of mind control and/or ritual abuse, and those who have lived when they would rather have died.

Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.

Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one’s authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically.

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

I think this point is so important, I'm going to repeat it: You should never listen to criticism that is primarily intended to wound, even if it contains more than a grain of truth.

I would much rather have my grotesque products of the imagination compared to your delusional sanity.

Historians are great gossips at a high level.

...it is my belief that all of us suffer from some kind of mental instability. What would you say if I told you we all are a little crazy?

It is their attachment to us rather than their independence from us that we value in our pets.

I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.

There are many legal and psychological ramifications to using Krav Maga in the real world and nearly all of them are extremely unpleasant.

The only voice of dissent you have to dispel is your own.

You must have something in order to give it up.

The expression of preferences is the essence of love.

When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defense ourselves.

How old you would become if you don't know how young you are.

The American educational psychologist Patricia Alexander has expressed the view that fear paralyses and curiosity empowers. Accordingly, she reasons, we should always be more interested than afraid.

My job is to assist you in finding the answer that is right for you. Not the answer that would be right for me.

The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".

The change of the word does not alter the matter

One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.

Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.

There's no weakness as great as false strength.

Let’s train ourselves to not hate each other. We all come from the same consciousness in the mind.

It does not take a man to stand with the strong, it takes a man to stand with the weak and oppose the strong.

No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience.

In what way did your parents screw up to make you the woman you are today?

Human nature is so complicated that it will never know the exact border between normality and abnormality them they..

The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.

Genes and education are fundamental building blocks with witch man develops personality and lifestyle in one way or other...

Human person as a unit harmonic and dynamic individual integrates in the living environment using for this purpose all available resources.

I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.

When it comes to most true bipolars, consider this thought: Genius by birth, bipolar by design.

The world is your perception of it. Inside and outside always match - they're reflections of each other. The world is a mirror image of your mind.

Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I’m not ashamed of my illness. I’ve been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too.

The moment we refuse to hurt others because of our own pain, is the time we evolve as souls.

Many people say that psychiatrists just want to push drugs. Well I seriously have to say, without medication, I’d be locked up in a VA hospital somewhere.

Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.

The best way to overcome depression is to work it to death. Whether it be your body or your mind, just be active and some relief you’ll find.

Dogma is a defence against the brain’s capacity for free thought based on the fear that such thought might lead to a scary place.

Psychosis is person less persona, raving sincerity.

Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves.