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Psychology Quotes
"I canalmost understandwhypeopleleapfrombridges."
"When I see you, I think "I wonder which face she sees when she looks into the mirror."
"Attitude is the mind-set, the kind of thoughts you process and meditate on, to generate the kind of feelings you have towards life, people and issues. This is what makes you do what you do in the way you do it."
"Holding fantasy to our chests only means our hands are not free to work."
"Checked thoroughly, humans stink."
"We are never through with the requirement for acceptance. This isn't a curse limited to the inadequate and the weak. Insecurity may even be a peculiar sign of well-being. It means we haven't allowed ourselves to take other people for granted, that we remain realistic enough to see that things could genuinely turn out badly and that we are invested enough to care."
"I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest."
"Without love what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely."
"For there is not a single human being, not even the primitive Negro, not even the idiot, who is so conveniently simple that his being can be explained as the sum of two or three principal elements; and to explain so complex a man as Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt. Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two. His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousand and thousands."
"And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed."
"Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them. It's superstition: If you give assistance to the family in need... if you throw salt over your shoulder... if you don't step on the cracks, then maybe you'll be immune. Maybe you'll be able to convince yourself that this could never happen to you."
"Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom.Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace."
"Well, you know, that was the worst of it - this suspicion of not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity - like yours - the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar."
"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."
"Many strong emotions are actually intricate tapestries woven of various strands."
"Empathy is a breaking down of the false constructs of division between the observer and the observed."
"To say 'I' where I' is not - is the greatest illusory attachment (raag)."
"When you really know somebody you can't hate them. Or maybe it's just that you can't really know them until you stop hating them."
"It begins with isolation - demons always inhabit desolate places..."
"We each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires..."
"How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we are not failures. We are works in progress."
"If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation."
"Beware men with cold hearts and blue lips."
"One part braggart to one part coward. He would fear everyone he did not control. And the next day he would fear those he controlled even more."
"The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other."
"You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control."
"The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion."
"Man wants to belong.He just doesn't know how."
"There's no such thing as emotion.It's only body chemistry in action."
"It's so weird, to know you're crazy and not be able to do anything about it, you know? It's not like you believe yourself to be normal. You know there is a problem. But you can't figure a way through to fixing it. Because you can't be sure, you know?"
"Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution."
"I felt like Dirty Harry, only, my weapon wasn't as big as his! I don't know what it is with guns, but once you've got your hand on one, you think you're one of the untouchables."
"A cricketer who hits a century in one match may score zero in the next, if he does not have the same outfit, shoes and bat that he used in the first match. In fact, many sportsmen keep some kind of talisman in their pocket that acts as a lucky charm for their game. Here the talisman or the outfit doesn't possess any magical power that helps the player to perform better. But it is their own subconscious reliance on the charm, that makes them give their best."
"She always, She always wanted to express herself but no one cared,So she stopped,She was crushed,Stiff & lifeless,Like everything else."
"Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul."
"Your conscious thoughts are those that you are aware of. But there are deeply buried treasures to be discovered in the shadows of your subconscious brain. Your find them by closing your eyes and seeing what you can't see with your eyes wide open. To open your mind you often have to close your eyes. Shut out the world to enter a different realm."
"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time."
"That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself."
"The ostrich-approach of burying your head in the sand, when confronting your areas of weakness, becomes a self-set trigger for failure."
"A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel. Its instinct is to assume that nothing either for good or evil has happened, and to resist the invader. Once gripped, it feels acutely, and its sensations in love are particularly profound. Given time, it can know and impart ecstasy; given time, it can sink to the heart of Hell."
"The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism."
"People who were perfectly sane on Tuesday sometimes go nuts on Wednesday."
"Understanding did not provide solace or make the pain go away; in many ways, understanding was just more salt in the emotional wound. Ignorance allowed one to fight back with unfettered cruelty. Understanding inspired empathy, which led to guilt, as well as suffering.She looked at Gavin, supine, unconcerned, contented, and thought that perhaps there was something to being a sociopath. If you didn't have a heart, it couldn't be broken."
"He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer- excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained observer to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his."
"Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed."
"Do not compare yourself to others because you are neither superior nor inferior to them."
"The victim mindset will have you dancing with the devil, then complaining that you're in hell."
"He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times."
"Reason is the first victim of strong emotion," Scytale murmured."
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