Psychological Quotes
104 quotes
"It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."
"You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity."
"الوقت الإنساني لا يسير في شكل دائري بل يتقدم في خط مستقيم. من هنا، لا يمكن للإنسان أن يكون سعيداً لأن السعادة رغبة في التكرار."
ميلان كونديرا
"Don’t hide what you have just because people tell you it’s not normal. I have known normal people…and guess what? They are as boring as hell..."
"Hiding things is the most foolish thing that annihilates correlation."
"Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings."
"A fundamental approach to life transformation is using social media for therapy; it forces you to have an opinion, provides intellectual stimulation, increases awareness, boosts self-confidence, and offers the possibility of hope."
"So much of what people believe makes no sense, Wylie."
"How did you merit so much devotion so quickly?' I asked, making no attempt to keep the sarcasm from my voice.'I show them Heaven', said she, without a trace of irony. 'People are so desperate for light'."
"Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them."
"Writing is an incurable psychological disease which only gets worse with writing."
"Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
". . . even the surprise of harmless others in the house disturbed me. I didn't want my inner rot on display, even accidentally. Living alone was frightening in that way. No one to police the spill of yourself, the ways you betrayed your primitive desires. Like a cocoon built around you, made of your own naked proclivities and never tidied into the patterns of actual human life."
"[Patricia Highsmith] was a figure of contradictions: a lesbian who didn't particularly like women; a writer of the most insightful psychological novels who, at times, appeared bored by people; a misanthrope with a gentle, sweet nature."
"The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalism, groupthink, self-deception"
Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
"All I have is me, myself and I and we are all getting really tired of each other."
"Life is messy. No matter how hard we try to create order, something happens to cause the structure we created to falter. Maybe that's the only way for us to learn. If everything stayed neat and orderly, then we would never be forced to grow and change. We need something unexpected to help us make sense of where we are and to guide us to where we need to go."
"There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep."
"Our psychological and spiritual vigilance is very important during a time of persecution"
"She was born under the sign of Gemini. And that stands for the good and evil twin. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde both hiding and residing inside her heart. Her good twin was not bad at all. But her evil twin was even better, and showed up to be way too fatal!"
"I now know that deep within the human concept is something dark, selfish, and completely willing to do whatever is necessary to support the idea of humanity. Because that’s what it is, an idea. True humanity would never behave as we have behaved."
"With perseverance and endurance you can survive any storm."
"Defence lawyers use the term "duress" to describe the use of force, coercion or psychological pressure exerted on a client in the commission of a crime. When duress is applied to the emotionally unstable the result can be as violent as it is unpredictable."
"Jobs had begun to drop acid by then, and he turned Brennan on to it as well, in a wheat field just outside Sunnyvale. "It was great," he recalled. "I had been listening to a lot of Bach. All of a sudden the whole field was playing Bach. It was the most wonderful feeling of my life up to that point. I felt like the conductor of this symphony with Bach coming through the wheat."
"Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world."
"Premature satisfaction with half-success is a dream-killer of ambition , nobody should indulge in it."
"Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage."
Edward M. Hallowell, Dare to Forgive: The Power of Letting Go & Moving on
"When the expected occurred, never panic, by keep calming, you gain control over the situation."
"She averted his eyes, but not before he recognized the pain in them, a tormented and languished gaze, a stare preserved for people who were able to love deeply enough that they could be destroyed by it. For a moment, he knew that gaze intimately, remembering it from a time long gone. The ache of a shattered belief once known. He knew that feeling."
"She averted his eyes, but not before he recognized the pain in them, a tormented and languished gaze, a stare preserved for people who were able to love deeply enough that they could be destroyed by it."
"The sun glowed behind the monotonous, gray January sky, a tease of light through the heavy hazy. Noah gazed out the window. He hated when the sun shined against the overcast sky creating a white, blinding glare while the ball of yellow remained hidden, a tantalizing possibility without a promise. Maybe it would poke through; maybe it wouldn't. That type of sun was a capricious as a woman."
"Looking at that pain in her eyes, he felt a closeness with her that he had never experienced before. Like they shared something powerful and unspoken, something so deep and devastating, it bonded them together. He knew then, that if she didn't forgive him, he would never survive.He was nothing without her."
"[Man] literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social games, psychological tricks, personal preoccupations so far removed from the reality of his situation that they are forms of madness, but madness all the same."
"Sometimes a night of over-eating leaves you hungry for something you can't name. An emptiness haunted me. An emptiness I didn't have a name for until I met Jeb. Now, I' m starving."
"I don't know how the Wolfman knows all this, but he's not wrong. My warm cheeks turn scalding hot. "Your shame is a good sign. You may break sooner than I thought. The breaking is good. It purifies."
"The city was a machine of its own, continuously producing. We were constantly pumped out through its assembly line, in different forms or models. We came hardwired with different stories, dark secrets, vices, and defects. Over time, we fail and come to find our end, but the city continues onwards."
"Corporate terrorism is psychological warfare. Corporate terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society."
"After forty years of working on prevention of a wide range of common and costly psychological and behavioral problems, I am convinced we have the knowledge to achieve a healthier, happier, and more prosperous society than has ever been seen in human history."
"Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience."
"Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy."
"The only way to go back in time is by moving into the future"
"A fresh approach is needed — an analysis of our human situation from a basis that recognises and confronts the psychological dimension to our behaviour"
"Happiness is a choice and a state of mind."
"Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing."
Asa Don Brown, The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview
"Worldview is often confused with perception; rather, it is our perception that influences our worldview."
Asa Don Brown, The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview
"I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible."
"By freeze-framing the image of our lifestyle, by stopping our mental clock at times and letting time flow, 'psychological' time can replace 'chronological' time and our human condition can be called into question. This opens the door to a new challenge and a new future. ( "Svp "Arrêt sur image" )"
"Being in home is like magic moments, in a magic world, among magicians."
"Sorry doesn’t make anything better. It’s just a word to fill the space of a loss of words."
"...shiny trinkets and frivolous spending make people forget what world they're living in."
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