Psychology Quotes

When you become aggressive in arguments, you force the other person to become defensive which means they’ll either get ready to fight you or ready to flee from you.

~ Sam Owen

We have to allow ourselves to feel it in order to heal it.

~ Sam Owen

Within our emotions lie answers, truths and instructions.

~ Sam Owen

Feeling your way to knowledge rather than thinking your way, often results in better learning.

~ Sam Owen

Anger usually only serves us, and even then, only very fleetingly.

~ Sam Owen

Correctly identifying a negative emotion takes the brain out of fight-or-flight mode and into problem-solving mode, out of tension, anger and confusion and into ease, calm and clarity.

~ Sam Owen

Our emotions affect the atmosphere around us, and other people, because emotions influence the electromagnetic field our heart emits.

~ Sam Owen

When people seem angry, sometimes they are simply upset and hurting. Asking the right questions helps them to work through it.

~ Sam Owen

Sometimes the anger directed at another is actually anger toward the self.

~ Sam Owen

Fear of confronting emotions is like fear of reading road signs.

~ Sam Owen

We can achieve more in a moment of compassion than in an hour of anger.

~ Sam Owen

How we care for ourselves gives our brain messages that shape our self-worth so we must care for ourselves in every way, every day.

~ Sam Owen

Jealousy of another means you need to work on making you proud of yourself.

~ Sam Owen

When you lack self-esteem it’s easy to keep attracting the wrong people into your life.

~ Sam Owen

Clarity and simplicity help us to build confidence keep things clear and keep them simple.

~ Sam Owen

Self-esteem comes from not letting unrelated external occurrences be tied to your own self-worth.

~ Sam Owen

We build confidence by daring to step outside our comfort zone in small increments.

~ Sam Owen

Remembering our personal growth that resulted from negative life experiences makes new obstacles easier to embrace.

~ Sam Owen

Building confidence comes from overcoming the voice in your head that says you are not capable silence the noise and then prove it wrong.

~ Sam Owen

Arrogance based on relentless denial of faults eventually makes a person weary.

~ Sam Owen

In a world of increasing fakery, genuine people are the sexiest.

~ Sam Owen

Know your worth so you know when to say, “Yes”, and when to say, “Thank you but no thank you.

~ Sam Owen

Confident people generally handle people with respect, compassion and integrity.

~ Sam Owen

Get matured or call yourself a grandparent. Age never revised. Childish is not an excuse.

~ Radin Erus

True happiness is realized beyond circumstance. It is universal relationship, not centered or devoted or residing on other individual relationships we have. True happiness sees the actions of others as directly connected to who we ourselves are. It sees beyond individually separated relationships and is birthed from one great relationship with everything there is.

~ Saunsea

It is easy to hurt people when we do not filter our thoughts, when we do not choose our words, when we do not control the tone of voice and the body language.

~ Saif Samir

Pure happiness and peace are at their peak when your body is in harmony with itself.

~ Asa Don Brown

Shame and blame should have no place in our body, mind, or spirit.

~ Asa Don Brown

Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings.

~ Asa Don Brown

Are you seeking to be offended?

~ Asa Don Brown

Are you living in the moment?

~ Asa Don Brown

What is an unconditional state?

~ Asa Don Brown

But wether I am faking on a player piano, or striking the chords with the power of my own mind and hands, the song of my life is equally suspenseful and full of surprises as it rolls off the pulsating sounding board of destiny - a barcarole that either way will leave, I hope, happy echoes behind

~ Eric Berne

You get told to look before you leap. But if you are too careful you may end up just looking.

~ Max Mckeown

Pushing your limits is what allows you to grow stronger, so if you find yourself feeling passive, it can make sense to dial it up a little. Get moving. Accomplish something small. Do something you enjoy. Embrace what moves you. And start again.

~ Max Mckeown

Fear, anxiety, stress and panic, all these are basic evolutionary expression of the human brain. They are part of the normal human condition.

~ Abhijit Naskar

When phobia starts to build up in the psyche of thinking humanity against a part of its own kind, there is nothing more primordial and gruesome than that, especially when we are talking about a species that is supposedly the most intelligent one on Earth. Phobias recorded in DSM do not make a person lesser human, but Islamophobia does indeed define whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman.

~ Abhijit Naskar

In my opinion, defining intelligence is much like defining beauty, and I don’t mean that it’s in the eye of the beholder. To illustrate, let’s say that you are the only beholder, and your word is final. Would you be able to choose the 1000 most beautiful women in the country? And if that sounds impossible, consider this: Say you’re now looking at your picks. Could you compare them to each other and say which one is more beautiful? For example, who is more beautiful— Katie Holmes or Angelina Jolie? How about Angelina Jolie or Catherine Zeta-Jones? I think intelligence is like this. So many factors are involved that attempts to measure it are useless. Not that IQ tests are useless. Far from it. Good tests work: They measure a variety of mental abilities, and the best tests do it well. But they don’t measure intelligence itself.

~ Marilyn Vos Savant

Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them.

~ Nenia Campbell

I think one can tell a lot about a person from the way he chooses to let the stub of his cigarette burn out...

~ Sanhita Baruah