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Psychology Quotes
"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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"I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you."
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"The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls..."
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"Some people feed your ego, but starve your soul."
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"People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt... They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear."
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"How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ego's sense of self-worth is in most cases bound up with the worth you have in the eyes of others."
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"People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring."
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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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"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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"Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy."
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"The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly - you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over."
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"I don't think it is a good mental health practice to fantasize that you know the infinite thoughts of imaginary entities."
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"It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts."
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"But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It's about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes. Yes, people disappoint us all the time. But the harshest lessons come when we disappoint ourselves. When we put our trust and our hearts into the hands of the wrong person and they do us wrong. And while we may hate them for what they did, the one we hate most is ourself for allowing them into our private circle. How could I have been so stupid? How could I let them deceive me? We all go through that. It's humanity's Brotherhood of Misery."
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"We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes]."
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"Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event."
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"To be filled with fear is to open to the wrong way."
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"No matter how much we think about something, in the end, the decision is made on how we feel."
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"A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit."
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"Sensation tell us a thing is.Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.Feeling tells us what this thing is to us."
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"Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution."
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"Some secrets are heavy because they aren't yours to tell."
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"O, lack and doubt and fear can only comeBecause of plenty, confidence, and love!They are the shadow-forms about their feet,Because they are not perfect crystal-clearTo the all-searching sun in which they live.Dread of its loss is Beauty's certain seal!"
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"Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear."
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"It was the irrational doubt which springs from the isolation and powerlessness of an individual whose attitude toward the world is one of anxiety and hatred. This irrational doubt can never be cured by rational answers, it can only disappear if the individual becomes and integral part of a meaningful world."
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"Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt."
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"So what oppresses and scares us? It is our own thoughts, obviously, What overwhelms people when they are about to leaves friends, family, old haunts and their accustomed way of life? Thoughts."
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"Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order."
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"Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get in accord with them they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world."
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"But everyone has some kind of power to hurt people."
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"The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual."
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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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"One tended to lose one's bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate."
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"I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains."
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"The spirit of pessimism inside of her was purely organic."
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"People think that those who commit suicide are against life-they are not. They are too lusty for life, they have great lust for life; and because life is not fulfilling their lust, in anger, in despair, they destroy themselves."
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"The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims."
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"Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy."
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"Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood."
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"Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk too fast, and forget us, they are so lost in thoughts of their own, and soon or late they disappear. The only mystery is that we expect it to be otherwise."
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"The true self is that which is in touch with reality. The false self is the aspects of your personality that are adapted to threats and no longer consciously recognizes either the adaptation or the threat."
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"When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more."
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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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"Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain."
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"The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature."
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"Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system. Our eyelid closes before we are aware that the fly is about to enter our eye."
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"Your beliefs frame your thoughts and actions. If you change your beliefs, you change your reality."
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"The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings."
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"He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glasses."
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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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