Quotes on Psychology

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”

“A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.”

“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”

“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.”

“Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.”

“We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.”

“Asshole Proximity Disorder”

“Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.”

“You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.”

“We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.”

“Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.”

“What we do not confront, we inhabit.What we do not reject, we accept.What we do not fight, we become.”

“Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.”

“Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying no to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.”

“Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.”

“Excuses are a promise of repetition.”

“Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.”

“There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.”

“Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.”

“Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.”

“The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government has no incentive to end child abuse; because the government needs abuse victims as enforcers.”

“Deep connection is the antidote to madness.”

“to have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.”

“Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.”

“În clipa când ți se impune să nu te gândești la un lucru, te vei gândi doar la el, obsesiv. Interdicția devine obligație.”

“The hardest thing in the world is to let go of who you once thought you were and to manifest your true self, at the risk of being unloved. This is self-actualization.”

“I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.”

“What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ''nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition.”

“striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm.”

“Look towards a wall if you will, but I shall look inwards towards myself.”

“The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance”

“I see the inner me. That's why I cut myself.”

“How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.”

“The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.”

“Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when it is uncomfortable, painful, or the last thing you want to do.”

“Love is being able to view a situation without adding duality to it.”

“It’s all about reprogramming our minds to focus more on what brings us joy.”

“I'm not stupid, but I like to let people think that I am.”

“It is strange... the reasons one feels he doesn't deserve things.”

“This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.”

When people say that they don’t want to talk about something, they usually mean that they can’t stop talking about it.

The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

Every game has a purpose and its own special benefits.

No man is a hero to his wife’s psychiatrist.

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

It’s amazing what the human mind can do, and even more amazing what it refuses to do.

We’re all just a little mad sometimes.

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

What we are unable to deal with in ourselves, we will project onto others.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.