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Psychology Quotes
"The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference."
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"It is easier to be a mere performer and not to make serious decisions, to live with an assistance of someone else's mind and obey someone else's command when you are a person of victim mentality."
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"Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master."
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"He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women to understand them, and to that end they tell them all their secrets; and then, when they are properly understood, they hate their women for understanding them."
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"And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?"
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"Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry."
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"I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."
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"I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people."
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"I have one problem, I don't hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism."
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"A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything."
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"Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself."
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"Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure."
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"It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying, 'Come up again, dear!' I shall only look up and say, 'Who am I, then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up -- if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else' -- but, oh, dear!"
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"The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt."
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"I know why she cried like that. She cried because she wasn't finished grieving the loss of me. When someone has an exaggerated emotional reaction to something in the present, it's usually because they haven't resolved something in their past."
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"The longer you blame the mirror, the longer you throw away the power to change what it is reflecting."
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"And if redemption was self-serving, coming as it did ribbon-tied to what he wanted most in life? For once, Akiva's shame wouldn't rise to the bait. He wanted what he'd always wanted, and he'd better just say it, his own worries and fears be damned."
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"Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, thatreason alone keeps people from allowing themselves to believe."
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"When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad."
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"Feelings are best left concealed. They can bite you if you're not careful. They can eat you alive."
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"If you combine the suffering's great color palette you will find happiness as well."
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"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."
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"Has anyone succeeded in being his own desire?"
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"It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn't match the reality."
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"No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise."
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"Psychology is the science of mental life."
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"In the absence of data, we will always make up stories. In fact, the need to make up a story, especially when we are hurt, is part of our most primitive survival wiring. Mean making is in our biology, and our default is often to come up with a story that makes sense, feels familiar, and offers us insight into how best to self-protect."
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"At best, people are open to scrutinizing themselves and considering their blind spots; at worst, they become defensive and angry."
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"Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love."
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"You are never as good as you think you are, and you are never as bad as you believe yourself to be."
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"Over-analysis is a dream killer. Sometimes you can drown yourself in your own thoughts."
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"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."
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"Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery."
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"When you give people a choice, they believe they have power."
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"Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing."
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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 you close your eyes, you get to control your own darkness."
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"The negative patterns that form as a result of this self defeating behaviour actually symbolize the negative belief that we nurture."
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"I sort of got off on making bad guys sweat. Which was not unlike my love of making good guys sweat, just by very different means."
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"Cowards...cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye."
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"I stop fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now. T-shirt."
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"Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it renders everything asunder, the wall, and the bonds and its very self."
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"Being in your head is when you analyze, control and overthink. Run on thoughts, worry, talking but not listening, taking all the workshops and reading all the books, but not experiencing it's message."
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"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems."
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"We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does."
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"Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves."
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"For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it."
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"I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all."
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"And indeed, if Eugene Iretnev was mentally deranged when he committed this crime, then everyone is similarly insane. The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves."
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"Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn't care about so that I couldn't lose anything I really loved ever again."
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