Quotes About Psychology

man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. Nevertheless, say yes to life; A Psychologist Experiences the Concentration Camp

Having shown the beneficial impact of meaning orientation, I turn to the detrimental influence of that feeling of which so many patients complain today, namely the feeling of the total and ultimate meaninglessness of their lives. They lack the awareness of a meaning worth living for. They are haunted by the experience of their inner emptiness, a void within themselves; they are caught in that situation which I have called the existential vacuum.

Viktor Frankl

The last of the human freedoms [is] to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

Killing these assholes was the most therapeutic thing he'd ever done in his life. It was more effective than a decade of psychotherapy.

extremes of feeling are allied to madness;

Agnes Smedley also knows what the century knows: that we become what is done to us.

Religion and that newer science of the spirit, psychology, have met and are beginning to find common ground as we search for and find the answers to what it means to be human. From these two sciences of the spirit is emerging a new vision of humanity and human potential which shows that to live in harmony with and to understand the spiritual aspect of our humanity is fundamental to human existence and happiness.

Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.

For the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented.

Only experts, for experts, should probe a mind's misery.

If I was feeling frightened playing tennis, I don't see why I would do it!

He was the ultimate experiment in Nature Versus Nurture, and she imagined he must be engaged in a constant battle between what he was and what he wanted to be.

Fear is the brother of hate.

Psychology professor Albert Mehrabian at the University of California, Los Angeles, laid out the concept called the 7-38-55 rule in his book Silent Messages. The concept divided into percentages how we communicate emotions:3 • 7 percent spoken words • 38 percent tone of voice • 55 percent body language

Most people don't understand the psychology of asking, which is why it is so difficult to ask for (let alone receive) the things that are essential in your life.

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

Therapist:) "It's interesting that you drew yourself with this little golden crown on your head. What does the crown mean to you?" "That's not a crown," she told him. "That's a nimbus of outrage.

autobiographical narrative running through our brains, is really three selves. There is the "anticipating self," who looked forward to that ice skating trip, the "experiencing self," who would do it, and the "remembering self" (a concept Nobel Prize–winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman popularized in his research), who would look back fondly on the memory of those kids zipping around on the ice.

Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away.

I went over to my bookshelves, makeshift boards on bricks. I had a lot of books, most of them nonfiction, because I'd always felt that in nonfiction, specifically in the disciplines of psychology, philosophy, and theology, I might find clues about ways to live my life.

I didn't know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core.

I had lots of books, most of them nonfiction, because I'd always felt that in nonfiction, specifically in the disciplines of psychology, philosophy, and theology, I might find clues about ways to live my life.