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Psychology Quotes
"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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"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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"Blame is the coward's retreat.They think it frees them, but it confines them. Blame is also the coward's warden."
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"Narcissists are consumed with maintaining a shallow false self to others. They're emotionally crippled souls that are addicted to attention. Because of this they use a multitude of games, in order to receive adoration. Sadly, they are the most ungodly of God's creations because they don't show remorse for their actions, take steps to make amends or have empathy for others. They are morally bankrupt."
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"Dwelling on thoughts gives birth to feelings."
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"The psychology of the change is that "People like to change, but do not want to be changed and there is the difference."
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"Doubt, fear, and hesitation are enemies of the mind, for a weak will severs our inborn connection with the universe, dampens the faith with which we are able to join our will to it."
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"I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all."
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"The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism, they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are increasingly preoccupied themselves."
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"Selfish people are always seeking ways to advance themselves. They only notice you when you have something beneficial to them. Realize when someone is using you for their own personal gains and put a stop to it."
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"We are what we believe we are."
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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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"Mindset matters... always. The difference found between the victorious and the envious, the successful and the haters; is mindset."
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"She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me."
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"As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves."
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"The business of imagined pleasure is associated with pain."
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"Rank and status do not represent power when surrounded by negativity."
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"If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him."
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"Indoctrination is not just demeaning to the human conscience, it is lethal for the flourishing psychology of the hungry, young mind."
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"There are few things more contagious than a healthy attitude."
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"If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us."
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"Emotion often outwits intelligence, while intuition renders life surprisingly fluent and enjoyable. ['Le ciel c'est l'autre']"
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"Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces."
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"Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing, but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout."
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"Man is the artificer of his own happiness."
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"If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man."
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"That is the way with us when we have any uneasy jealousy in our disposition: if our talents are chiefly of the burrowing kind, our honey-sipping cousin (whom we have grave reasons for objecting to) is likely to have a secret contempt for us, and any one who admires him passes an oblique criticism on ourselves. Having the scruples of rectitude in our souls, we are above the meanness of injuring him-rather we meet all his claims on us by active benefits; and the drawing of cheques for him, being a superiority which he must recognize, gives our bitterness a milder infusion."
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"What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera."
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"Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their childhood feelings of being engulfed surface. While they could not 'smash their mommy' and still receive love, they find that they can engage in intimate violence with partners who respond to their acting out by trying harder to connect with them emotionally, hoping that the love offered in the present will heal the wounds of the past. If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle."
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"For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name."
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"There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations."
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"Maybe that's why people don't like you. You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makses some people angry."
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"Comparison is the thief of joy."
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"The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from."
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"Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe."
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"Let thy discontents be thy secrets."
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"Take outside - freedom. What is it? What does it mean to a madman? I'll tell you, we go years through a lifetime with no love, no sex, no nice food and no nice clothes. So when it comes-we choke on it! The kindness strangles us; we can't cope, so we make pigs of ourselves."
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"We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't."
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"We all talk to ourselves. Those we call mad just talk a little louder."
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"Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution."
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"Poor little place,' he murmured with a sigh.She heard him. He said the most melancholy things, but she noticed that directly he had said them he always seemed more cheerful than usual. All this phrase-making was a game, she thought, for if she had said half what he said, she would have blown her brains out by now."
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"Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family."
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"Saying that someone is full of themselves is silly. Who else can one be full of - except self?"
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"Fear can make a moth seem the size of a bull elephant."
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"It's not so easy for people to end their own lives. It's not like in the movies. There, they do it like nothing, no pain, and it's all over, they're dead. The reality is not like that. You lie in bed for ten years with the piss oozing out of you."
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"I don't think most people would like my personality. There might be a few -- very few, I would imagine- who are impressed by it, but rarely would anyone like it."
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"For darkness terrifies. It swallows you, warps you, nullifies you. Who alive can possibly profess confidence in darkness? In the dark, you can't see."
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"It is easy to wish ill on others whom we feel deserve it, but remember that when you point a finger at another, three more are pointed back at you."
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"Maybe you never considered yourself a bully, a batterer or an abuser before, but maybe you are - to yourself."
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