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Psychology Quotes
"We have negative mental habits that come up over and over again. One of the most significant negative habits we should be aware of is that of constantly allowing our mind to run off into the future. Perhaps we got this from our parents. Carried away by our worries, we're unable to live fully and happily in the present. Deep down, we believe we can't really be happy just yet-that we still have a few more boxes to be checked off before we can really enjoy life. We speculate, dream, strategize, and plan for these "conditions of happiness" we want to have in the future; and we continually chase after that future, even while we sleep. We may have fears about the future because we don't know how it's going to turn out, and these worries and anxieties keep us from enjoying being here now."
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"Trying to change someone, and their views, is like throwing paper into a fire."
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"I am not absent-minded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."
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"I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary."
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"Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?"
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"I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely."
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"The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence."
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"The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience."
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"To be filled with fear is to open to the wrong way."
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"Transition and change - guaranteed to cause anxiety. That anxiety shows itself in physical and behavioral ways, but also with thoughts (sometimes really crazy ones). This is the (primitive/automatic) brain's way of keeping us safe from the danger of change. We end up getting so involved with the feeling and thoughts of anxiety, we get distracted from the "danger". If we trust the anxiety then our primitive brain has succeeded in "protecting" us from the danger. I suggest not believing, trusting, or taking direction from the anxiety and continue your pursuits forward. Then, you will be amazed at your ability to attract and reveal your true capabilities, your light, your magic."
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"Fear has no brains it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated."
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"Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology."
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"Ego and pride is a two headed twist."
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"There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them."
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"He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and whose whole day is ruined by it."
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"I have lost confidence in myself."
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"Don't let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them."
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"Sometimes it's better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don't think us impervious / unapproachable - be real / open."
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"Variability has potential to create confusion."
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"If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked."
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"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
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"I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists."
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"Some people feed your ego, but starve your soul."
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"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence."
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"The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity."
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"Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie."
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"Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation."
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"Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph."
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"What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting."
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"Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings."
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"We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win."
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"This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human. In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance I had been hitherto accustomed to call mine. And in so far I was doubtless right. I have observed that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde, none could come near to me at first without a visible misgiving of the flesh. This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil."
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"The psycho-babble lavished on her by her mother in a prior life found her, whispering of trauma and coping, how this was not her fault and blaming herself at all was useless. She would eventually try to believe this, as soon as she was behind her locked bedroom door."
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"I can't worry about everything at once, Elend thought with determination. I just have to trust. Trust in myself and keep going."
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"But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things."
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"I looked into those eyes and I saw nothing. It was like staring straight into the Underworld. Like he aches to return to where he came from."
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"The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself."
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"Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of physical freedom, but garnered none of the benefits of it."
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"There's the good girl leading a charmed life who secretly covets to be the rare and elusive femme fatale and the femme fatale who yearns to be good and then there is their nemesis - men who dream and desire both."
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"He was mad and plenty brave."
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"This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody went crazy together nobody would notice, what do you think?"
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"We hurt ourselves much more than anyone can hurt us just by believing the stupid thoughts we get sometimes."
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"For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said."
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"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."
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"Together with the patient, a therapist looks at the nature of the pain. Often, the therapist can uncover causes of suffering that stem from the way the patient looks at things, the beliefs he holds about himself, his culture, and the world. The therapist examines these viewpoints and beliefs with the patient, and together they help free him from the kind of prison he has been in. But the patient's efforts are crucial. A teacher has to give birth to the teacher within his student, and a psychotherapist has to give birth to the psychotherapist within his patient. The patient's "internal psychotherapist can then work full-time in a very effective way."
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"No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology."
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"A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping."
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"This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat."
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"It is easier to be a mere performer and not to make serious decisions, to live with an assistance of someone else's mind and obey someone else's command when you are a person of victim mentality."
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"Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof."
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