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Psychology Quotes
"You're not trying to find the answer to a question, you're simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe: that everyone is evil."
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"Time passed: the mind rebuilds it's defenses."
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"Free your mind and free yourself from brand slavery."
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"Ego will always conduct itself to make sure that it does not appear bad."
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"Why is this disengagement epidemic becoming the new norm? A few reasons I have witnessed in speaking with companies across the country include . . . Information overload Distractions Stress/overwhelmed Apathy/detachment Short attention span Fear, worry, anxiety Rapidly changing technology Entitlement Poor leadership Preoccupation Social media Interruptions Multitasking Budget cuts Exhaustion Boredom Conflict Social insecurity Lack of longevityThese challenges not only create separation and work dysfunction, but we are seeing it happen in relationships and personal interactions."
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"Everyone or almost all eventually evade reality and we invent what we need."
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"Blaming other people inevitably makes us blame ourselves because if we are pointing the finger at someone, practically, we are pointing it at ourselves as well."
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"In other words, Shozaburo Takitani was now alone in the world. This was no great shock to him, however, nor did it make him feel particularly sad or miserable. He did, of course, experience some sense of absence, but he felt that, eventually, life had to turn out more or less like this. Everyone ended up alone sooner or later."
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"Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is)."
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"The problem you have isn't a delusion of grandeur, it's a delusion of insignificance."
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"Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man."
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"Once you stop being locked into viewing reality from just one perspective, you will start to be free from habitual reactivity."
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"How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?"
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"Boredom is a symptom of a conditioned and closed mind. If you are bored, you're doing yourself a tremendous disservice. Open your mind, break-free from your conditioned routine, and reignite the flames of excitement and discovery."
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"For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet."
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"I'm a classic eccentric, living at the extremes of high mania and low mood. There's no middle ground, only madness and sadness."
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"The asylum years taught me a lot about myself. Bear in mind I'm the only lunatic in the United Kingdom who spent time in all three max secure asylums, which you should now know are-Rampton, Broadmoor and Ashworth. Don't ask me which is the best or the worst, as how do you compare insanity with insanity?"
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"Guilt takes away the energy and strength and reduces a person's productivity."
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"Discontent is want of self-discipline it is infirmity of will."
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"If you have to be told how you should feel then those feelings are not strong enough to make you feel alive; they become rules that don't fit your life script. Not every person will place the same importance as you do on one of the six human needs: certainty, variety, significance, connection/love, growth or contributions. When you know what is most important for yourself and learn to recognize what need is the most important to others, then you can begin to unlock the real reason behind conflict."
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"A 'biomass' man lives by his instincts."
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"You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light."
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"We live with the key purpose of receiving the approval of those around us because we don't know who we are in reality."
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"Help does not come from anywhere outside - it comes only from within ourselves."
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"What is their real problem? Is it the fear or is it what they do after feeling it?"
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"I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling."
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"Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes."
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"The human mind is generally farmore eager to praise and dispraise than to describe anddefine."
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"When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don't be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!"
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"Beauty is an illusion, created by Mother Nature to drive the human species in the path of reproduction. In reality, beauty is irrelevant to human life, especially in a relationship. What you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not so special. That's how the human brain works. It is not beauty that keeps a relationship alive, it is attachment. Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex toy."
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"Nostalgia... the blessing of a merciful memory."
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"Do I know you? I know you clear through. I was born and raised in the South, and I've lived in the North; so I know the average all around. The average man's a coward."
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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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"Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it might go on."
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"The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry."
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"Where does personality end and brain damage begin?"
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"I was becoming a product of society, a hardened juvenile! Now I was becoming rebellious and hateful."
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"Shit. The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn't it? Shadows grow faces."
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"If you really do put a small value upon yourself rest assured that the world will not raise your price."
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"Most people throw away their personal power... If you want to know where, look at who and what you hate, blame, resent, and envy."
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"You cannot give out a negative frequency, that of disrespect, and expect respect to flow toward you. Neither can you hold on to your biases, prejudices and negative thinking toward something, and expect that something positive will return to you."
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"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you."
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"Gavin, I can't talk to you here. People will call me crazy." My imaginary friend smirked. "But you're already talking to me." "Well, I have to stop." His smirk grew cocky. "I doubt you can resist." And he was right. There was nothing I wanted more than to give my full attention to an imagined shadow and ignore those who ignored me in the real world. I wanted to talk out loud to Gavin-to play and laugh boisterously with him. In a dream I could justify such behavior, but to succumb to hallucinations while wide awake would only prove me insane."
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"Boredom is restlessness of the soul. It is an internal message reminding you that you're better than the stagnancy you've settled for."
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"Reflect your thoughts and watch others mirror them back to you."
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"[If a man] postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the conversation of his new friends [are] based... he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent. He will assume, at first only by his manner, but presently by his words, all sorts of cynical and sceptical attitudes which are not really his. But... they may become his. All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be."
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"Most people feel that they rise in their own eyes, if others want them. I feel that others live up to me, if they want me..."
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"It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me."
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