Psychology Quotes
We are currently in the midst of the greatest epidemic sickness known to humanity.
Trauma is a unique phenomenon all on its own, as if it is an entity in and of itself.
To be a success you need to have persistence of drive, persistence of vision, and persistence of action. You will be doing yourself a disservice by not staying resilient.
All we have to do to see is open our eyes and look. As we teach what we learn, I am in essence talking to myself.
Evil is like a pathogen that enters a system, be it an individual, nation-state, or world-system, and exploits that system, knocking it off balance.
Wetiko is elusive and mercurial, for whatever we say wetiko is, it isn't, in that it is always more, less, and other than what we are able to say it is in language.
Haslam leaves us in no doubt what we are supposed to make of Matthews' mental world: this is gibberish and nothing more.
The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could go wrong.
If history is written by the victors, conspiracy theory is typically written by the losers, and there were few greater losers in the revolution than the French church and especially the Jesuits.
James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any reward.
RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.Hazrat Ali
When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
We live in a world of constant noise which captures our minds even when we are not aware of it
The person following is never in control, which she knows full well and which is exactly why she does it.
Free man needs loyalty to the self first of all, and this implies the right to be himself
When the intensity it takes to extricate one from a negative state is equal to or greater than the intensity that perpetuated the state, then the person can be freed of that state
I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything.
It seems that there's a part of our psyche that doesn't know the difference between an agreement about cleaning the garage and an agreement about buying a company
Excerpt from "The Strength in Knowing"Doubt is the archenemy of the purity of thought and it inhibits theessence of all that is
The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured
Happiness is a state of mind, not a set of circumstances.
It is our ability to forget our problems, through the process of thought, rather than the passage of time, that frees us from the circumstances of our past.
IT IS NOT ABOUT SYMPATHY OR LIKEABILITY, EITHER. EMPATHY IS ABOUT THE TRANSLATION OF FEELING.
Common human experience alone is no guarantee with which we can build a science of psychology.
Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.
We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place.
When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge
Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited by their immaturity and the brokenness of their external world.
Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better.
To a certain degree, We all seek, life’s purpose and meaning, love, peace and joy, and knowledge, wealth and power…
We need dualities or opposites to appreciate, understandand recognize value and distinction in our lives. If we did not have bitter, we could not appreciate sweet....
Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. (Mirena to Eve)
Put emotions to thoughts. Thoughts to words. Words to paragraphs. Paragraphs to pictures. Let your mind be known, heard and seen. Your thoughts are real as it could be.
Once you the forces that govern behavior, it's harder to blame the behaver
Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends – sorry, I meant characters.
Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to follow the path that leads to himself.
The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact.
Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.
I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.
what is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.
Q. But it seems to me there are circumstances that simply induce one to have negative emo
My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.