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Psychology Quotes
"A first impression works like a magic mirror; it reflects what intrigues us rather than echoing a truthful picture. A first impression is the creating of an imagined character born from personal desires, perceptions, and biases. Though sparked by an introduction to a real, living, breathing individual, the person remains a mystery long after parting. It is a fictitious ghost masked with similar features that remains. A first impression is rarely accurate; therefore, it should never be trusted."
"He was a brilliant man. People tend to become wary of individuals like him because their brilliance reminds them of their own mediocrity. Envy is a blind man who wants to pull out your eyes."
"The best don't stick around when you treat them poorly, only the desperate do."
"Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You could lead whole populations around by their desires, by their fantasy projections."
"But he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude."
"He thought perhaps it was a woman's way, to come out of such a storm of emotion and pain as if she were a ship emerging onto calm seas. She had seemed, not at peace, but emptied of sorrow. As if she had run out of that particular emotion and no other one arose to take its place."
"Human beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force us close enough to the fire to feel the heat on our faces."
"The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness."
"I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching."
"All human activity is prompted by desire."
"We can't fix, only support each other to process, manage, transform, make life-journeys in own way."
"A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man."
"She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind."
"You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity."
"This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never again be."
"The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing."
"Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. It all begins when the object of your adoration bestows upon you a heady, hallucinogenic dose of something you never even dared to admit that you wanted-an emotional speedball, perhaps, of thunderous love and roiling excitement. Soon you start craving that intense attention, with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is withheld, you promptly turn sick, crazy and depleted (not to mention resentful of the dealer who encouraged this addiction in the first place but who now refuses to pony up the good stuff anymore-despite..."
"He regarded Huginn as only slightly more dangerous than most pets, in that he understood why people had pets but harbored the paranoia they would one day eat their owners. True, it kept Eliot from even having a pet larger than his fist, but it also kept him from being kibble."
"The louder you bellyache, the longer your stomach will hurt."
"Most of the time, our fight is all about saving us from ourselves."
"Most people can't stand spending a few minutes by themself. Yet they expect others to spend an hour, a day, or, even a lifetime, with them."
"You're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry."
"The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down those brave enough to show us the light. Likewise, people engage in darkness when it is light outside, and acknowledge the light only when it is dark. We abandon those fighting for us to cheer behind those fighting against us. And, we only remember good people and God when it is convenient for us, and take them for granted because their doors are always open - only to chase after closed doors and personalities void of substance and truth."
"People die every day, psychologically speaking. Some part of them gets tired. And that small part tries to kill off the entire person."
"The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-dominated flatland, we live in a social world."
"For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are there not - Heaven help us _ all having lodgement at one time or another in the human spirit? Some say two thousand and fifty two. So that it is the most usual thing in the world for a person to call, directly they are alone...Come, come! I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another. But it is not altogether plain sailing either...these selves of which we are built up, one on top of another, as plates are piled up on a waiter's hand, have attachments elsewhere, sympathies, little constitutions and rights of their own...so that one will only come if it is raining....another if you can promise it a glass of wine - and so on..."
"Your fears in life are only as fearful as you constantly interpret them to be."
"Id me didn't have to be concerned with long-term consequences. He was my instinctive, primitive self, driven by my most primal impulses. I wondered, briefly, if 'id' and 'idiot' came from the same root."
"I did something the other day that not many have been taught. I prayed for those who hurt me, to eventually find there way- not because they deserve it but because i deserve the growth."
"There is a difference between a psychopath and a neurotic. A psychopath thinks two and two are five. A neurotic knows that two and two are four but he worries about it."
"Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity."
"The thoughts that creep into our brain about other people tell us less about those people than they do about ourself...Understand that most judgments of others are an attempt to empower ourselves and give a sense of being better than the person we judge...Our primitive nature (automatic brain) helps us believe that this is necessary for protection. Following this natural tendency puts up further obstructions to the law of attraction."
"Holding on to negative feelings and past circumstances is like placing a lock on your soul."
"They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener."
"Indeed, with the experience of self disappears the experience of identity - and when this happens, man could become insane if he did not save himself by acquiring a secondary sense of self; he does that by experiencing himself as being approved of, worthwhile, successful, useful - briefly, as a salable commodity which is he because he is looked upon by others as an entity, not unique but fitting into one of the current patterns."
"Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I've just run into a wall."
"The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior-benefits that extended to every area of life. It was orderly, like the universe. It had logic. It was dependable. Using it allowed a kind of moral uplift, as one's own chaos was also brought under control.'Whenever I am troubled,' said the librarian, 'I think about the Dewey decimal system.''Then what happens?' asked the junior, rather overawed.'Then I understand that trouble is just something that has been filed in the wrong place. That is what Jung was explaining of course-as the chaos of our unconscious contents strive to find their rightful place in the index of consciousness."
"Comparison more than reality makes men happy or wretched."
"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
"The difference between a heel and a coward and one who jumps in the fire and one who runs away from the fire, is up to the individual in how they manage a given situation."
"A lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past."
"It occurred to me then that the man might not be mad, I found this far more disquieting than the alternative."
"Finally, I realised that No One, howsoever you may consider dearest to you, will never mend their ways to appeal you, for they will only follow their own nature. Accept it! You may like it or dislike it. The irony is in the process there may be phases in individual's lives where their actions/ behaviour may appease you, but that's never to be misunderstood that they have changed for you. From an evolutionary psychology standpoint, that's a rebellious attitude that shapes our society!"
"To know oneself one should assert oneself."
"Repeat the same action over and over again, and eventually it will feel right. Eventually, there isn't even any guilt."
"In the same way, teenagers imagine dying young because death is more imaginable than the person that all the decisions and burdens of adulthood may make of you."
"Every person with ADHD already knows that destination addiction is part of their disorder. However, if it doesn't have a positive outlet, it can destroy your life. It is not another person that will make your life better; it is the qualities in them that you admire. Incorporate those attributes into your own life and you won't miss a thing."
"Maybe that's who you are, what you remember."
"We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness."
"When we can only be happy for the success of those less fortunate, we are secretly undermining our own success."
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