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Psychology Quotes
"Messy" is a word we use to explain a conflict with an expectation we had. Eliminate the expectation, and you eliminate the "messy"."
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"I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its "problems" because they are part of its identity. If no one will listen to my sad story, I can tell it to myself in my head, over and over, and feel sorry for myself, and so have an identity as someone who is being treated unfairly by life or other people, fate or God. It gives definition to my self-image, makes me into someone, and that is all that matters to the ego."
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"Dr Allendy said that it was necessary to become equal to life, that the romantic was defeated by life, really died of it, whether by tuberculosis in the old days, or by neurosis today. I had never thought before of the connection between neurosis and romanticism. Wanting the impossible? Dying when unable to reach it? Not wanting to compromise?"
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"If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier."
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"You can't be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you."
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"Never cry for the same reason twice."
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"Because of propaganda induced cognitive dissonance, most people hate themselves and don't even know it."
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"His clear conscience is a result of a poor memory."
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"If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets."
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"Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species."
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"Narcissists often feign oppression because narcissists always feel entitled."
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"Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them."
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"Your mindset serves as the operating system for your entire life's experience."
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"Looked at again and again half consciously by a mind thinking of something else, any object mixes itself so profoundly with the stuff of thought that it loses its actual form and recomposes itself a little differently in an ideal shape which haunts the brain when we least expect it."
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"Your fear of the truth does not hide or dilute it."
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"Human brain is structured to avoid any kind of refutation of one's religious beliefs."
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"All energy given to us for the achievements of goals and self-actualization is instead spent on deriving acceptance from our surroundings and compliance with the requirements of the society."
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"Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
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"They didn't realize that her clumsiness was not the ordinary kind, not poor coordination. It was just because she wasn't sure where the edges of her body ended and the rest of the world began."
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"Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man."
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"When someone is stalking you because they think you are stalking them, it makes you wonder who really is the true stalker?"
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"Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness."
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"It is not until you find yourself lost in the silence that you will learn to let go because everyone has let go of you."
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"Both positive and negative thinking are contagious."
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"Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born a decade before their birthdate."
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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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"Sometimes I just get tired. I get headaches, and I just lose track. I mean, it's like which is me and which is the role? Where's the line between me and my shadow?"
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"I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out."
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"The argument against faith is all based upon the rigorous analysis of the scriptures, and not upon the objective observation of the actual individual sensation of faith. Historical experiences of the Kingdom of God gave rise to all the scriptures in the world, but the scriptures themselves don't account for the actual globally prevalent psychological element of faith or divinity in the human mind. Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal coping-mechanism."
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"It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of te chest beneath that makes them seem so."
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"Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind."
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"We appear to be saying something very important aboutsomething: and actually we are only saying something about our own feelings."
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"The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it."
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"No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline."
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"Focus determines your feelings, which in turn influence your behaviour, actions and your destiny."
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"Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines that she could read."
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"They may call your victories, "lucky"...They may mock your failures...They may laugh at your heartache...But still, they will never be happy. This is the cyclical emptiness of the hater mindset."
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"Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology."
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"I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised."
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"You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself."
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"The female brain is engineered to avoid conflicts at all cost, whereas the male brain pleasures conflicts in the purpose of being the boss."
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"People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring."
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"To open door to hatred is to open one's spirit to misery."
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"Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial."
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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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"Some people behave as though they are having an allergic reaction to feelings."
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"I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating."
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"Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself."
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"If we like a person, all his attributes will manifest within us. If we like a pickpocket, even his attributes will manifest within us."
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