Psychology Quotes

She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Psychology at best tells us how things are, not how they are supposed to be!

~ Zal

A securely attached child will store an internal working model of a responsive, loving, reliable care-giver, and of a self that is worthy of love and attention and will bring these assumptions to bear on all other relationships. Conversely, an insecurely attached child may view the world as a dangerous place in which other people are to be treated with great caution, and see himself as ineffective and unworthy of love. These assumptions are relatively stable and enduring: those built up in the early years of life are particularly persistent and unlikely to be modified by subsequent experience.

~ Jeremy Holmes

Attachment exerted an invisible but powerful pull on the child, just as heavenly bodies are connected by gravitational forces. But unlike gravity, attachment makes its presence known by a negative inverse square law: the further the attached person is from their secure base, the greater the pull of attachment. The 'elastic band' which constitutes the attachment bond is slack and imperceptible in the presence of a secure base. If the secure base becomes unreliable or the limits of exploration are reached, the bond tugs at the heartstrings.

~ Jeremy Holmes

To feel attached is to feel safe and secure. By contrast, an insecurely attached person may have a mixture of feelings towards their attachment figure: intense love and dependency, fear of rejection, irritability and vigilance. One may theorise that their lack of security has aroused a simultaneous wish to be close and the angry determination to punish their attachment figure for the minutest sign of abandonment. It is though the insecurely attached person is saying to themselves: 'cling as hard as you can to people - they are likely to abandon you; hang on to them and hurt them if they show signs of going away, then they may be less likely to do so'. This particular pattern of insecure attachment is known as 'ambivalent insecurity'.

~ Jeremy Holmes

While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.

~ Erich Fromm

I long for the day I no longer long for him.

~ Franki Fiori

...knowing often felt preferable to not knowing. It provided the illusion of control.

~ Jordan Castillo Price

Despite what you might think, NORMAL people do NOT cause problems, misfortunes, conflicts, distress or accidents. And when they do, they CAN apologize and recognize their negative influence. A person that causes these things and can’t assume any responsibility for them is, apart from showing the cognitive and moral level of a child, deserving nothing more than abandonment, because she is dangerous at all levels and can hurt, or even kill, someone BY ACCIDENT, including herself and whoever is with her. A person like this DOES NOT deserve any TRUST for ANYTHING, ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING.

~ Robin Sacredfire

As I regard physics and psychology as complementary types of examination, I am certain that there is an equally valid way that must lead the psychologist 'from behind' (namely, through investigating the archetypes) into the world of physics. As an example of background physics, I shall discuss a motif that occurs regularly in my dreams - namely, fine structure, in particular doublet structure of spectral lines and the separation of a chemical element into two isotopes.

~ Wolfgang Pauli

Do Not Dictate a Child through Someone, it Ruins the Child's Experience.

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

Accept it all your so called SINS are only a result of your unawareness and nothing else, No sooner you realize this simple fact, you're instantly transformed. Stay Guilt Free, Celebrate Life!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

I am in good company, simply following those in front of me and knowing others are following behind. We are on our way up a narrow staircase. The bannister is a thick rope suggesting safety. The stairs go around and around inside a church tower; or perhaps it is a minaret? The whorls of the staircase grow narrower and narrower, but as there are so many people behind there is no longer any possibility of turning around or even stopping. The pressure from behind foeces me on. The staircase suddenly stops at a garbage chute in the wall. When i open the hatch and squeeze my way through the hole, i find myself on the outside of the tower. The rope has dissappeared. It is totally dark. I cling on to the slippery, icy wall of the tower while vainly trying to find a foothold in the emptiness.

~ Sven Lindqvist

Mindless action without a real understanding of the ramifications is only likely to result in serious miscalculations or a colossal waste of time. Avoid both by using your judgment, filtered through both knowledge and experience. Use common sense and logic as a counterbalance to emotion.

~ David Amerland

Moral deliberation has to be somewhere in the brain, after all. It’s not going to be in the foot or the stomach, and it’s certainly not going to reside in some mysterious immaterial realm. So who cares about precisely where?

~ Paul Bloom

...the mind that is collectively orientated is quite incapable of thinking and feeling in any other way than by projection.

~ C.g. Jung

Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.

~ Neel Burton

Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness.

~ Neel Burton

The ultimate purpose of psychology is to release from psychology.

~ Shai Tubali

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained

~ Idries Shah

Rather than being guided by images of how to be, people need to attend to how they actually are and to respect this.

~ Leslie S. Greenberg

Suicide is a permanent answer to a temporary problem. They say, it's not an answer in any way. Taking your own life is SE Self Execution, many have said that's a terrible name. I ask should killing yourself sound good?

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

The wish to gain complete possession of somebody is expressed most plainly by jealousy. Jealousy is never a sign of love. It only indicates fear of not being able to hold another person.

~ Rudolf Dreikurs

Individuality should not translate to narcissism. Realizing the strength of individuality is an accomplishment while being narcissistic is a failure.

~ Amitav Chowdhury

Dissatisfaction with status quo is the psychology behind creative disruptions.

~ Pearl Zhu

Everything is up to psychology and Mindset.

~ Deyth Banger

Dear Sigmund,Multiple Personality Disorder is a much discussed topic in my one bedroom bedsit.Signed....Thomas, Jane, Ralf, Tom, Toomey and Spot

~ Anthony T. Hincks

One mistake is all they see.

~ Joyce Rachelle

More often than not, it’s disrespectful to them (our children) - and disrespectful to their struggle with their tasks in life- if our own anxiety as parents makes us cling to our children. It’s disrespectful is we demand more intimacy than they are willing or able to give. Too much involvement with our children is not an act of love- it’s an act of selfishness.

~ Daniel Gottlieb

As our children turn even five or six degrees away from us, we have to be aware of our fear and our excitement and our hope for them. And as that five or sex degrees turns into ten or twenty degrees, even ninety degrees, we have to monitor those feelings every step of the way-and ultimately realize that our child is another human being and not necessarily and extension of us.

~ Daniel Gottlieb

Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Try staying awake for 24 hours and you'll realize just how many needless worries your mind instantly shuts out.

~ Joyce Rachelle

I am learning through my work with Liz that part of being healthy is being able to hold and remember who people actually are instead of who we wish they were. It's a daily struggle against a brain that tends to want to cling to a fairy-tale hope, but it's also the only way to guarantee a life surrounded by those who build rather than destroy. In the end, the loss is about letting go of what I never had in the first place.

~ Kerry Kletter

As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother's writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her.

~ Joyce Rachelle

I am learning through my work with Liz that part of being healthy is being able to hold and remember who people actually are instead of who we wish they were. It's a daily struggle against a brain that tends to want to cling to a fairy-tale hope, but it's also the only way to guarantee a life surrounded by those who build rather than destroy. In the end, the loss is about go of what I never had in the first place.

~ Kerry Kletter

There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Dear World,I exist.Deal with it.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Our heads are filled with ‘knowledge’, a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all.

~ Idries Shah

Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold.

~ Erich Fromm

When emotions are long held and extremely complex, it sometimes takes years for them to enter fully into awareness.

~ Sharon Salzberg