Psychology Quotes - Page 6

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

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

Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.

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.

If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember – their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into – or remain – whoever we surround ourselves with. We can choose our tribe, but we cannot change that our tribe is our destiny.

Deep connection is the antidote to madness.

In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.

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

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

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

Asshole Proximity Disorder

There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.

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

It is a well known fact that even among highly cultured peoples the belief in animism prevails generally. Even the scholar may kick the chair against which he accidentally stumbles, and derive great satisfaction from thus 'getting even' with the perverse chair.

Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization, commerce and industry. The instinct takes the milder form of rivalry which is the motive force of the great portion of the serious labors of mankind.

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