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Psychology Quotes
"Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality - he loathed knowing that to-morrow and the thousand days after he would sell pompously at a compliment and sulk at an ill word like a third-rate musician or a first-class actor."
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"I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me."
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"Beliefs will nourish or poison depending on their compatibility with reality."
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"Sometimes I stare into a pool of piss, I see my reflection, I picture a hole in my face, there's nothing there, it's vanished. I watch the maggots turn to flies, and they fly off with bits of flesh from my body. I attempt to wipe it clear from my mind, but the nice thoughts get swallowed up. I can't think nice for too long-it would destroy me."
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"All human behavior, all human motivations, all man's hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind's tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction."
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"The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable."
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"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love."
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"Reason begets honesty, and honesty, if given its head, begets confidence; so consequently, there is a sort of grand authority in the stances of those who know why they are standing."
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"Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them."
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"The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to-instead of them-change reality."
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"No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person."
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"Perception can be one-sided or variant: "Glass half empty or half full." There usually is more than one way of perceiving. Thoroughly check your inner dialogue."
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"There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored."
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"If evil lingers around you, it will rub off on you, it will cause stress, anxiety and a lot of mental anguish! 'Eyes' - you can see evil in the eye of the beholder! Body! Talk! Stance! Walk! Posture! Evil oozes out!"
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"We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are-to most people-not important at all."
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"Stubbornness is a weapon.People tend to draw it out when a sensitive part of their identity is threatened-be it dignity, honor, pride, desires, etc. If loaded with righteous resolve, stubbornness can assist in overcoming obstacles and achieving great feats; however, more often than not it is loaded with anger, used as a means of destruction for both the possessor and those whom he turns his weapon upon. It is best utilized by wise individuals who are able to dispassionately perceive if their stubbornness will accomplish good, or if it should be put away and replaced by a humble substitute to spare the lives of everyone affected."
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"But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel."
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"The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW."
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"Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip."
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"I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began."
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"A doctor once asked me: 'Charlie, what do you think your problem is?' "Doc,' I said, '-you're the problem!"
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"Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore."
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"The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won't be with others, but with yourself."
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"Overly playing the role of the victim can debar you from accepting responsibility for your actions and emotions."
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"So if all what I've said is the definition of insanity then the next thing is how do you define an evil bastard? People can mix evil and insanity up, thinking both to be the one and self same thing-wrong! Let me tell you about evil, first you smell it, secondly you feel it, thirdly you taste it and finally you need to destroy it."
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"Just imagine, you're on a stretcher in the hospital, being wheeled to the operating theatre, they inject you, put you to sleep-anaesthetic. You drift into blackness, you're out and you're the closest yet to death. Then a surgeon cuts into your body, rips you open, goes deep inside. Looks within, pulls a bit out, puts bits in, sews you up. Then! If you're lucky, you awake! Some don't wake, this is my point, will you wake? Why should you? How can you? That's the black hole of madness you're in! Screaming to get out: 'Alive' or just 'Sane'! You want out of it, you want to see the light!"
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"Memory is the binding foam of our mental life."
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"The only thing that will make us remain glued to being the victim is our failure to handle the emotions that we go through and the pain that overcomes us."
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"The war consciousness is purposely cultivated to guide the male away from the natural, healthy balances between masculine and feminine energies, and toward more unbalanced and detached psychologies."
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"Your mind is the voice for your heart."
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"A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word."
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"Sorry, but the truth is that Dr. Cal Lightman wasn't as crucial as he was supposed to be......But he is trying to be right?"
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"In his private heart no man much respects himself."
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"I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself."
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"Family and friends become oppressors the moment they teach you that loyalty is more important than what is done to people outside your social circle. What they are really saying is this: Save yourself because God is more interested in an intact family or social circle that looks righteous, rather than you being a person of integrity that has compassion for others. It is this absurdity that teaches the wrong version of God and creates the next generation of "me" centered individuals."
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"Over the years you have been subjected to a great deal of mind propaganda which has resulted in you reaching the ceiling of maximum potential by virtue of your current limited mindset."
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"Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality."
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"This is not suitable for me- to say this is indeed madness, it is nothing but egoism. To say 'will not suit' is an offense."
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"What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story."
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"A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood."
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"Tears terrify people more than anger because they attach to your heart and leave angels of mercy to shout in your mind."
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"A complex is stealing energy from our personality."
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"Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem."
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"Life ups the self-esteem of a low-paid man by giving him things that the high-paid man that he envies cannot buy (intellect, looks, sex appeal, etc.)."
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"Thought awareness is the first step in the process of managing negative thoughts, as you cannot manage thoughts that you are unaware of."
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"What was she dreaming about, Mrs. Ramsay wondered, seeing her engrossed, as she stood there, with some thought of her own, so that she had to repeat the message twice", ask Mildred if Andrew, Miss Doyle, and Mr. Rayley have come back?" The words seemed to be dropped into a well, where, if the waters were clear, they were also so extraordinarily distorting that, even as they descended, one saw them twisting about to make Heaven knows what pattern on the floor of the child's mind."
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"A person today who seems to have a great sense of self-esteem has his or her childhood days to thank for it."
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"One lunatic in Rampton used to have bouts of hysteria. Where he would let out a scream, and run at a wall and dive headfirst - crash! He was given a crash helmet! (Well it is a mad house.)"
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"If you think a lot of the comments made tonight are not funny but are immature and tasteless that's only because the sense of humor is the first thing to go."
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"Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this."
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