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Psychology Quotes
"People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life."
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"Pride can be friend, ego can be foe...depending on which one we choose, or not, to conquer."
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"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid one are full of confidence"."
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"But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture."
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"I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane."
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"Beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone."
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"It's the hard things that break; soft things don't break. It was an epiphany I had today and I just wonder why it took me so very, very long to see it! You can waste so many years of your life trying to become something hard in order not to break; but it's the soft things that can't break! The hard things are the ones that shatter into a million pieces!"
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"I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian."
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"The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people."
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"The sentences still form in my mind, and thoughts still do their little show-off dance, but I know my thought patterns so well now that they don't bother me anymore. My thoughts have become like old neighbors, kind of bothersome but ultimately rather endearing - Mr. and Mrs. Yakkity-Yak and their three dumb children, Blah, Blah and Blah. But they don't agitate my home. There's room for all of us in this neighborhood."
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"Either the gates of hell had opened, or Tom had lost his mind; for there could be nothing like this entity outside the precincts of the damned, except in the fevered fantasies of a raving paranoid psychopath."
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"When people's parallel truth collides with their real truth, they may have a hard time in subduing all the fanciful items and characters of their invented world. ['The day the mirror was talking back']"
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"An obstinate man does not hold opinions but they hold him."
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"People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable."
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"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."
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"An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant."
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"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have the man looked honest enough."
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"Your thought is so important because it has the ability to make or mar you. Your thought will either move you forward or set you backwards."
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"The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves."
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"The best remedy for people who have become your headache is to take a 'chill pill' from your willingness to endure their misery."
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"I do not expect old heads on young shoulders."
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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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"The more you learn the biology behind your every action, emotion and behavior, the better you become at accepting others the way they are."
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"People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on."
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"At best, people are open to scrutinizing themselves and considering their blind spots; at worst, they become defensive and angry."
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"Why Does Mirroring Work? Scientific research suggests 'mirroring' techniques works because of the mirror-neurons which are fired in our brains when we both perceive and take action. When we observe someone doing something, we may feel as if we are having the same experience."
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"Over-analysis is a dream killer. Sometimes you can drown yourself in your own thoughts."
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"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."
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"I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication."
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"What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it."
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"I think most readers would say the same. Most would choose Midori. And the protagonist, of course, chooses her in the end. But some part of him is always in the other world and he cannot abandon it. It's a part of him, an essential part. All human beings have a sickness in their minds. That space is a part of them."
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"Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you."
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"A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key."
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"Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology."
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"To have them putting him on, trying him on, trying him out while he himself puts them on like a sock over a foot onto the stub of himself-his extra sensitive thumb, his tentacle, his delicate, stalked slug's eye which extrudes, expands, winces and shrivels back into himself when touched wrongly, grows big again. Bulging a little at the tip, traveling forward as if along a leaf into them, avid for vision. To achieve vision in this way; this journey into a darkness that is composed of women-a woman-who can see in darkness while he himself strains blindly forward."
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"Your labels don't limit me. they limit your experience of me."
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"The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself."
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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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"The negative patterns that form as a result of this self defeating behaviour actually symbolize the negative belief that we nurture."
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"Just take my advice and stay away from those psychiatrists they're dangerous. And if you're 13 years old and sitting in front of one do what I never-chin him 'cos if you don't you'll live to regret it. You talk to your mum and dad (they know you best) and keep your problems in the family."
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"Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends."
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"Cowards...cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye."
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"Innocence is a kind of insanity."
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"The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence."
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"She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane."
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"Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts."
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"Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself."
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"I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all."
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"Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage."
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"She asked him, to name the monster that he is most afraid of always and looked into his eyes in silence. 'I see him every time whenever I stare into your eyes.' he replied."
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