Psychology Quotes

More than ninety-five percent of your brain activity, as you consciously read this sentence, is being used by your subconscious mind.

What you feed in yourself that grows.

You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous.

Nothing gets transformed in your life until your mind is transformed.

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.

There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face.

Show a man too many camels' bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.

Show a man too many camels' bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. (Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz)

I always have my reasons, even when I don't know what they are.

My head is a prison I’ve been locked in from the start, So if I'm treated like a criminal I might as well play the part.(attrib: E. Tancarville)

Ego is like an antivirus which eventually takes unwanted control of the computer itself.

It's a mind, it works by metaphor.

You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.

...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.

We are what we read -- and the power of books to transform the minds and personalities of their readers can give cause for anxiety as well as for celebration.

The social havoc wreaked by unfettered economic greed comes to be interiorised as the personal weakness and irresponsibility of those principally affected.

The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.

Saying of the ProphetDesireDesire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.

Worry has never solved a problem.

The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.

Falling in love, finding your passion, are attempts to locate, to picture, to represent what you unconsciously feel frustrated about, and by.

This pursuit of unavailable distant people has oedipal roots.… fearing the consequences, they make certain that they fail at the attempt.”―Distancing, Kantor (p.115)

Reality is not a thought experiment.

Healthy people learn how to frequently adjust their thoughts to make reality comfortable and realistic.

​Belief is exclusively a matter of personal domain. It has nothing to do with reality.

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets

Is this World a reality or just a Human perceptions?

Should' assumes that when either willingness or ability is lacking, it may be compensated for by an abundance of the other. This is simply not realistic.

Reality is but several levels of consciousness that can be accepted or dismissed depending on what one perceives.

For every quote, there is one that challenges it.

I certainly don’t buy into the idea that positive attitudes can somehow mysteriously directly influence physical health outcomes.

Vibration can be shifted through the mastery of thought

When we reside in Gratitude, it's impossible to simultaneously feel like a victim.

When we reside in Gratitude, it is impossible to simultaneously feel like a victim.

Optimism: things will go my way. Positivism: everything is perfect right here and now, whether I like it or not.

Through the absence of what we think we have to have we can discover our wholeness

Males of all species are made for wooing females, and females typically choose among their suitors.

True maturity is in attitude and a true attitude is maturity.

Pressure makes diamonds - or not.

More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart – more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi – more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton.

Force your kids to pursue success and they shall be drowned into the abyss of characterlessness, but let them pursue excellence and they shall rise as glorious Gods.

Human making is our mission, but if you break the very soul of the would-be humans, then there will be no human to raise.

Let your children nourish their knack, for that knack shall one day provide them with the way to live with dignity and contentment.

Let your child be the torch of truth and they shall shine over the entirety of the human society brightening even the darkest corners.

The zeal of kids is to explore! Until you know how to sustain the real interest of your child, the real interest of your child shall be sustained by something else!

Teach the children compassion and empathy, for all creatures are born selfish.

Never put a single thought of weakness in the flourishing minds of the children. Fill them up with vigour and compassion, for their character will define the future of the entire human species.