Quotes About Psychology

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

Everything but happiness is neurosis.

I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.

Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.

Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.

Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.

The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

If you have the thought in your mind that you are sick, you surely will be.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.

Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.

Psychology describes. The Bible prescribes. 'Turn from evil. Let that be the medicine to keep you in health.' Pr 3:7,8.

I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.

Shame is, hands down, the most uncomfortable feeling. And, because it produces continuous amounts of inflammatory chemicals in the body, it is also a health risk.

This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn't chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain.

Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.

Probably more than half of the people who go into psychology do so because they need help. I think it's their way of feeling that they have control.

A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.

More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.