Quotes About Psychology

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One of the most powerful effects in your life is brought by Who-You-Think-You-Are. The moment your brain became functional, you began to build an image of who and what you believe yourself to be. All the events of your life have helped to create that image, the self-image of Who-You-Think-You-Are.

It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed meaning bolted to it. If history doesn't become story, it dies to everyone except the historian.

It was frightening, the extent to which a full belly made for a good mood.

the unconscious is unknown and unrepresentable and, in being so, maintains by default the idealistic fantasy of gaining conscious meaning and control.

Hell is just a frame of mind.

Simple and brief interactions with nature can produce marked increases in cognitive control," they explain in a paper for Psychological Science called "The Cognitive Benefits of Interacting with Nature.

The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.

Wars are won in the mind before they can be won on the field.

Soul Psychology is not just a psychological model, but an energetic reality." -Penczak in Temple of The Crown: Union With Spirit (Living Temple Vol 1)

Putnam argued that the concept of psychological bravery has not been properly recognized in ethics and asserted that the psychological bravery involved in facing fears generated by our own habits is essential to well-being.

Encouragement as a concept in psychology has been most influenced by Adler (1946), who proposed that discouragement was at the root of many mental health problems and the seed of destruction in many interpersonal relationships.

PRESCRIPTION FOR REBELLION' — REVISITED BY CHRISTOPHER S. HYATT, PH.D. Mental health is the ability to deny reality and repress feelings within the boundaries and parameters established by one's peer group(s). — Christopher S. Hyatt,

Genocidal societies also show a marked tendency toward what psychologists call "just-world" thinking: Victims are believed to have brought their suffering upon themselves and, thus, to deserve what they get.3

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they'd never admit in normal conversation.

Present sensitization remains to be cured, whatever the original cause.

When a person is constantly sensitized and afraid of the state he is in, we say he is nervously ill.

Yes, she was happy inside her neurosis. War neurosis.

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.

These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.

Ici apparaît la vérité profonde que la méthode objective tend par essence à nous révéler: la vie intérieure n'existe pas, le plan psychologique n'offre aucune réalité, la conscience n'a pas d'importance.

You can't drive yourself sane.