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Psychology Quotes
"There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity."
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"Fear motivates, more than love or ambition or joy. Fear is more powerful than anything else in the world. I have spent so long yearning for things-for love, for acceptance-that I do not really need. I need nothing except the submission that comes with fear. I do not know why it took me so long to learn this."
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"The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die."
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"If little else, the brain is an educational toy.The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is that other people want to play with it, too. Sometime they'd rather play with yours than theirs. Or they object if you play with yours in a different manner from the way they play with theirs. The result is, a few games out of a toy department of possibilities are universally and endlessly repeated. If you don't play some people's game, they say that you have "lost your marbles," not recognizing that, while Chinese checkers is indeed a fine pastime, a person may also play dominoes, chess, strip poker, tiddlywinks, drop-the-soap or Russian roulette with his brain."
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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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"You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father."
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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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"Behaviours and habits are therefore the end result of the entire value chain and cannot be changed in a sustainable manner by scratching the surface - you have to dig deeper. This is why jail time, threats and sanctions without appropriate rehabilitation programs will not change a person unless they embark on a personal journey/program to initiate the process of change from the inner core " how the programs in their brain are wired to influence their beliefs."
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"The doctors agreed: He was going crazy...they didn't think it had anything to do with the war. They were sure Billy was going to pieces because his father had thrown him into the deep end of the Y.M.C.A swimming pool when he was a little boy, and had then taken him to the rim of the Grand Canyon."
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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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"He had been haunted his whole life by a mildcase of claustrophobia-the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.Langdon's aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always frustrated him.It manifested itself in subtle ways. He avoided enclosed sports like racquetball or squash, and he hadgladly paid a small fortune for his airy, high-ceilinged Victorian home even though economical facultyhousing was readily available. Langdon had often suspected his attraction to the art world as a youngboy sprang from his love of museums' wide open spaces."
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"I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe."
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"If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave."
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"Laughing at your pettiness probably works better than scolding yourself for it."
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"Until now psychologists only factored in emotional and physical gratification while studying subjects, but believe me I'm coining a new term: VIRTUAL GRATIFICATION, which will become a new form of craving in near future. Watch On!"
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"I love it when people lie! Lying is only man's privilege over all other organisms. Lying is what makes me a man."
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"It's true that many overly negative people actually fear letting go of their negativity, and it's because it has become a part of their identity. If this is the case, make it a smoother transition by releasing and replacing one negative opinion at a time. It certainly is an identity shift, but it's one that brings greater fulfillment and life satisfaction."
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"The mind can be won over if it is kept separate from things that appeal to it."
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"Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head."
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"Two people with mental issues in a relationship does not work. It's like sitting in a boat and neither one has an oar to row the other to shore. You can meet your mirror image in life, but that doesn't mean you should marry him."
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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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"What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it."
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"We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy."
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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 hate people hold on to for so long is what keeps them from feeling the pain they're most afraid of. deal with it. grow."
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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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"The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque."
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"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused."
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"Everything has taken on a strange, distant quality - the sounds of running and shouting outside get warped and weird like they're being filtered through water, and Alex looks miles away. I start to think I might be dreaming, or about to pass."
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"Cries for help are frequently inaudible."
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"Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane."
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"No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod."
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"His [Morel's] nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out."
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"Don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ..."
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"Sometimes reality is a fantastically traumatic nightmare."
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"Mother is fading for him, her face receding into shadows, her memory diminishing with each passing day, leaking like sand from a fist."
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"My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person."
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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 one who can smile without an outer reason is a mental case for many, but the one who cannot 'needs mental therapy!"
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"Never get involved with people who are likely to envy you at the end of the day. People like that will actually lurk in the bushes, play your mind, and pounce on you when you are at our most vulnerable state. Envy is the root of all evil, in all men and women, everywhere. They're not going to leave your side, but for reasons that you wouldn't like!"
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"Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly."
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"She's very selfish. Not exactly self-centered, but totally indifferent to everyone and everything. Don't you agree?' 'I don't think that's possible,' said Mr Satterthwaite, slowly. 'I mean everyone's interest must go somewhere."
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"Psychology is action not thinking about oneself."
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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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"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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"Awareness, when managed and directed, becomes attention. By turning into attention, awareness becomes localized, and attains a focal point. Because of this feature, attention has the power to direct energy."
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"The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil."
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"We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are, it may be an indication of how wicked we really are."
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