Quotes About Psychology

For a child, there are no such thing as unconditional love, it is all unconditional need.

Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it.

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.

I prefer being able to see my opponent. It is just different for me; I didn't grow up with the internet age really.

Age is not based on chronology, but psychology.

This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds there is perhaps even more that grates on our nerves.

A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing.

Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.

Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger; it fuels it.

Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.

Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.

If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.

If you realize that those who do mean things are psychologically ill, your feelings of anger will turn to feelings of pity.

I think sadness and anger are really fertile ground for comedy. No one is really interested in a happy person doing comedy.

Ego is a brain function and as such mortal.