Psychology Quotes
Try staying awake for 24 hours and you'll realize just how many needless worries your mind instantly shuts out.
As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother's writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her.
There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it.
Our heads are filled with ‘knowledge’, a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all.
Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold.
When emotions are long held and extremely complex, it sometimes takes years for them to enter fully into awareness.
Presence and AbsenceA certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence: I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.
You don't kill your ego. You overcome it by loving other people. And for that you need both ego and super-ego.
Authenticity inspires. Just be real.
I wanted to feel less.To not be burdened by emotion, To not feel sadness, To not know loss.I envied the inanimate, The trees that stand proudly in winter, Not missing their leaves.
Because we idealize Giving so much, we ignore the ability, blessing, and duty to Receive.
They wish to make a medical thing of evil. Madness is also such a useful metaphor, for that which we would rather not face...
We all struggle. It's just that some of us struggle out loud and some of us don't.
...a woman smart and persistent enough that even a PhD in psychology hasn't clouded her insight into how people think and act.
Women always cried. It was their last, best weapon. It made boyfriends apologize and husbands fold them in their arms. It made Daddy spend the extra money on the prom dress.
Follow the truth and you will never get lost.
Without confidence we feel insecure. We replay the doubting voices of our parents on a loop in our own minds.
Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought.
If you let others influence you, they will also let you influence them. But if you're only trying to teach them something, and put your ideas into people's brains, you will never succeed.
Humanism is not a single character. It is a magnificent blend of various emotional and behavioral traits that are unique to the human mind.
Figure out what you care about...and then care about it
People with OCD including myself, realize that their seemingly uncontrollable behavior is irrational, but they feel unable to stop it.
Often during writing, I am compelled by OCD to delete and rewrite a word or sentence over and over again.
A small amount of good literature can often teach more about the inner life than volumes of psychology.
even I get angry, as I see something lovable, immediately I want to hug him indeep love .anger takes a place of flowof breathing in peace
Figure out what you care about... and then care about it
Techniques are like tools: The more you have, the more options for getting a job done - but you have to know what you are building first.
In cases where treatment with medication is warranted, work on family interactions will help to reduce symptom severity and promote better functioning in the long run.
Embrace the anxiety of confronting your emotions because it’s often the emotional hitting of rock bottom that ignites our resolve to get back to the top.
What a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions.
Rape is something very obscene and this act must always be intervened by authorities, so victims will not end up suffering from a post traumatic disorder.
You are the result of the tension between who you think you should be and what you really are.
The rich believe that their money will insulate them from setbacks and frustrations, and that's one of the absurdist expectations of all.
The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.
People whose eyes shine are happy to be alive. They see life and it’s glory even when things aren’t easy.And because they see life, even through all the problems and obstacles, their eyes shine.