Psychology Quotes

With practice, INTJs become skilled at nodding and making responsive noises at appropriate times,while internally wondering whether dolphins have language or thinking about how Star Wars breaksthe laws of physics.

~ Anna Moss

The internet and online communication is the window into your world - but real life, in person communication / connection is the door.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Saying of the ProphetThe TongueA man slips with his tongue more than with his feet.

~ Idries Shah

Saying of the ProphetThe JudgeA man appointed to be a judge has been killed without a knife.

~ Idries Shah

Saying of the ProphetAngerYou ask for a piece of advice. I tell you: 'Do not get angry.' He is strong who can withhold anger.

~ Idries Shah

Some wounds; never reflects on the skin, but kills us slowly from inside.

~ Durgesh Satpathy

But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf, it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.

~ Ken Kesey

Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.

~ Criss Jami

In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence.

~ Asa Don Brown

The loss of a child exploits the emotions of each individual it encounters.

~ Asa Don Brown

Letting go of the past, is like opening the flood gates of healing to be set free.

~ Asa Don Brown

The benefits of forgiveness are limitless.

~ Asa Don Brown

An anchor should be someone who is personally open and willing to communicate.

~ Asa Don Brown

Saying of the ProphetEnvyEnvy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.

~ Idries Shah

It's not a secret that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

~ Lee Johnson

To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

~ Criss Jami

I had a dream. In the dream someone was critical of my newest novel The Snail's Castle. I said, don't worry about it. If you don't like it, just throw it out the window. I awoke, grinning, with a wonderful feeling of freedom.

~ Mark Gordon

Institutionalized:Ghetto stars pimped so hard for so long -- they'll starve to pimp themselves behind psychic bars.

~ T.f. Hodge

There is a wager that we must all make; for the small stake of some rewarding mental training, we can attain lasting contentment and contribute to a positive outcome for our planet.

~ Neil Hayes

The sight of somebody meditating needs to become commonplace.

~ Neil Hayes

This time once again it has been my chief aim to make no sacrifice to an appearance of being simple, complete or rounded off, not to disguise problems and not to deny the existence of gaps and uncertainties. In no other scientific field would it be necessary to boast of such modest intentions. They are universally regarded as self-evident; the public expects nothing else. No reader of an account of astronomy will feel disappointed and contemptuous of the science if he is shown the frontiers at which our knowledge of the universe melts into haziness. Only in psychology is it otherwise. There mankind's constitutional unfitness for scientific research comes fully into the open. What people seem to demand of psychology is not progress in knowledge, but satisfactions of some other sort; every unsolved problem, every admitted uncertainty is made into a reproach against it.Whoever cares for the science of mental life must accept these injustices along with it.

~ Sigmund Freud

Here lies the partner's salvation: if you, as his intimate, wish to sever your relationship with the narcissist, stop providing him with what he needs. Do not adore, admire, approve, applaud, or confirm anything he does or says. Disagree with his views belittle him, reduce him to size, compare him to others, tell him he is not unique, criticize him, give unsolicited advice, and offer him help. In short, deprive him of the grandiose and fantastic illusions, which holds his personality together.The narcissist is a delicately attuned piece of equipment. At the first sign of danger to his inflated False Self, he will quit and disappear on you.

~ Sam Vaknin

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.

~ David J. Lieberman

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

~ Stefan Molyneux

The concept of the psychopath is, in fact, an admission of failure to solve the mystery of evil—it is merely a restatement of the mystery—and only offers an escape valve for the frustration felt by psychiatrists, social workers, and police officers, who daily encounter its force.

~ Janet Malcolm

The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.

~ David J. Lieberman

This scene expresses the basic situation of immaturity; lyricism is an attempt to face that situation: the individual expelled from the protected enclosure of childhood wishes to enter the world, but at the same time, because he is frightened of it, he fashions an artificial replacement world out of his own verse. He makes his poems revolve around him like the planets around the sun; he becomes the center of a small universe in which nothing is alien, in which he feels as much at home as a child inside its mother, for everything here is fashioned only from the substance of his soul. Here he can accomplish everything that is so difficult outside; here he can, like the student Wolker, march with a proletarian crowd to make a revolution and, like the virginal Rimbaud, lash his little girlfriends because that crowd and those girlfriends are not fashioned out of the hostile substance of an alien world but out of the substance of his own dreams, and they are thus he himself and do not shatter the unity of the universe he has constructed for himself.

~ Milan Kundera

Cognitive insight (knowing something) is not like emotional insight (feeling something). It has no psychodynamic effects. It does not affect the narcissist's behavior patterns, or his interpersonal interactions - the products of well entrenched and rigid defense mechanisms.

~ Sam Vaknin

What you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway.

~ Idries Shah

Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade.

~ K. Hari Kumar

Even sleep offered no respite from my mental disorders. There was Nightmare Disorder, which is diagnosed when the sufferer dreams of being pursued or declared a failure. All my nightmares involve someone chasing me down the street while yelling, You're a failure!

~ Jon Ronson

The need to create a citadel in which to hide from the world is characteristic of people with a schizoid disposition

~ Anthony Stevens

When I became too much myself, I had to change my life.

~ Abby Norman

Projections' - attempts to blame all and sundry for my own past folly - will be found of no avail, and we must learn to withdraw them. None other is to blame for our body, home or circumstance, our friends and enemies, our job and place in the world. We made it all; let us accept and use and better it.

~ Christmas Humphreys

Each one of us is hard at war - within. We must face this battlefield; withdraw, as the psychologist would say, our habitual projections of that strife from the world around us, and realize that we should be so busy killing the selfishness within that we really have not the time, much less the will to blow up our neighbour. And when a few more individuals recognize that the war within implies a friendly tolerance of those about one, and of their ways of living and internal fighting, the Hitlers and Stalins and even the unpleasant fellow next door may provoke in everyman a smile, rather than an H-bomb, or even a bow and arrow.

~ Christmas Humphreys

You don't love me.. Believe me! You don't love anyone. How could you? And no one loves you. How could they? Except me, it's only because I love you that I'm telling you all this. I Love you.. R. D. Laing.

~ R.d. Laing

Progression and regression go hand in hand with mental health. It is a tough illness. You often take one step forward and ten steps back.

~ Theresa Larsen

Excerpt from my lecture Sunday at Soul-Esteem Center10 Commandments - God knew when he gave us choice some would make the wrong choices, but God wanted his creation, man, to have free will and felt later it necessary to write the 10 Commandants as a reminder of how God wanted his creations to perform. The 10 Commandants contain 5 positives and five negatives

~ I. Alan Appt

I'm psychologically equipped for this.

~ A. Ashley Straker