Psychology Quotes
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.
Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.
It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.
Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.
Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.
She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.
Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.
What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.
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.
I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.
Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.
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.
God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.
The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.
As it almost always was when I'd been too self-centered to see the truth of the matter, I felt impossibly foolish.
She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.
It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.
We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.
Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.
There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.
I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, p. 99)
There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.
Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.
If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.
The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.
What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.
The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.
Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system
They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it.
Patience is both the tool for and the result of, our efforts.
Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.
I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.
Thoughts, words, emotions & deeds not coming from love are likely coming from fear.
Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach.
There is no illness that is not exacerbated by stress.
Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.
And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world where misfits were welcome.
A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money.
But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.
