Psychology Quotes
Anything that tends to make us elated is inevitably going to throw us into depression.
Most people are asleep and need to be confronted, like adults that are still behaving like they're 5 years old, and don't want to assume responsibility for their mistakes.
That just seems to be the way we’re built.
There was a time when Men functioned through the mind and Women from their heart, now its Men who feel more and women think more...
But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and complex an act a murder can actually be, and not necessarily attributable to one dramatic motive.
Philosophically speaking, values are the termini of our intentions. We never fully achieve them.
Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.
You -have- to love your monster.
we all try to silence painful emotions. but when we succeed in feeling nothing we lose the only means we have of knowing what hurts us and why.
The human being is so complicated in some ways, and yet so simple in others. Sometimes, we need complex medication regimens. Yet, sometimes, we just need a good cry.
People it seems, are busy leading their lives into the future, whereas psychology, for the most part, is busy tracing them into the past.
Want to do something noble and courageous while you're on this Earth treat the mentally ill like they have some worth.
When I'm in doubt - as I am now - I ask myself, 'What would Carl Jung do?' - and act accordingly.
Only later, much later, too late, did I understand how small she (Mrs Winterson) was to herself. The baby nobody picked up. The uncarried child still inside her.
To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death.
You can’t change your past, but you can begin your journey by understanding it.
Not to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered good manners in our culture.
A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one.
Psychotherapy isn't a twentieth-century artifice imposed on nature, but the reinstatement of a natural healing process.
Cruelty is the opposite of love, and its traumatic effect, far from being reduced, is actually reinforced if it is presented as a sign of love.
One of the most influential aspects of people's psychology is how they perceive the world around them and how they relate to it.
Sometimes the closer you are to the truth, the harder it is to see.
I had sent her to four consecutive psychiatrists, and not one of them had gotten me sober.
The wind considers how trauma is - in essence - just a memory that violates previous memories too barbarically, an event that devastatingly conflicts against everything else one knows.
Only those person who learned to like themselves can be generous and friendly with others.
Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.
Relationships must be fostered as far as possible and maintained, and thus a morbid transference can be avoided.
All of material and All of any services can be purchased, with the exception of, Love, Peace and Joy, they are not for sale at any price
Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them?
It has been a messy week, and I blame myself as much as anyone else. I feel like a behaviourist who has designed her rat’s maze poorly.
Beyond the satiation level of income, you can buy more pleasurable experiences, but you will lose some of your ability to enjoy the less expensive ones.
Because of language, the thoughts we record today might reach into the future to influence the thinking of people not yet born.
There's no point in fighting for a woman that is rude and boring, just because she's hot. Such woman shortens your lifespan.
Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology.
But I'll tell you secret. Something even a lot of grownups haven't figured out yet, ' Miss Taylor leaned forward and whispered 'When we face our fears, we take their power away.
A psychologist’s job (if it’s done well) is to get you to seriously laugh at yourself.
Brains are like toddlers. They are wonderful and should be treasured, but that doesn't mean you should trust them to take care of you in an avalanche or process serotonin effectively.
Well-meant techniques such as arbitrary self-mortification, are useless.
