Psychology Quotes Quotes

“Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.”
― Pierre Bourdieu

“we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally from our relations with other men... This last source is perhaps more painful to use than any other. (p77)”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

“Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

“When pointing out the flaws in others, people always end up talking about themselves.”
― Claire Chilton

“Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.”
― R.D. Laing

“Your new life, your true self, is unfolding beautifully — one breath, one choice, one day at a time. Keep nurturing your light with kindness, patience, and trust.”
― Margarita Sekulova, Affirmations: A Guide to Manifest Better Life

“You don’t have to be perfect. You don’t have to have it all figured out. You only need to show up — with openness, curiosity, and love for yourself.”
― Margarita Sekulova, Affirmations: A Guide to Manifest Better Life

“Your mind does not inherently know what is real and what is imagined — it only responds to the stories you tell it. It can’t always distinguish between a true experience and a vivid thought.”
― Margarita Sekulova, Affirmations: A Guide to Manifest Better Life

“• I believe in my ability to create change.
• I am resilient and can adapt to new challenges.
• I trust the timing of my journey.”
― Margarita Sekulova, Affirmations: A Guide to Manifest Better Life

“You’re one of those people who tries to find comfort in overanalyzing old things to make more sense of them, when in reality, complexity is a product of insecurity, and insecurity a product of being unable to accept the simple reality of the situation”
― Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

“This is why the words you speak — to yourself and others — carry such tremendous power. They shape your beliefs, influence your emotions, and guide your actions.”
― Margarita Sekulova, Affirmations: A Guide to Manifest Better Life

“I was on a quest to help myself. I believe the same is true for most people who go into mental health. We are drawn to this particular profession because we are damaged - we study psychology to heal ourselves. Whether we are prepared to admit this or not is another question.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same time frightening. The best ones, to me, have a life of their own.”
― Luther E. Vann, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

“DENIAL
Defense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant realities is disavowed; refers to keeping out of conscious awareness any aspects of external reality that, if acknowledged, would produce anxiety.”
― Benjamin Sadock, Sadock's Comprehensive Glossary of Psychiatry and Psychology

“The best doctors are the ones that can get inside your head and fix something without making a hole.”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich

“Writers are fortunate in that they are able to treat their neurosis every day by writing and as soon as the writer is blocked—this is catastrophic because the writer will start to go to pieces.”
― Edmund Bergler, The Writer and Psychoanalysis

“Absence makes the mind go yonder.”
― Brian Spellman, Cartoonist's Book Camp

“SE Self Execution the act will always be greater than the pain.”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich

“To a Mormon at the doorstep of a psychologis: I know what you think you think, but I know what you think.”
― Rodney Compton

“[...] and then he had been relieved yet again: that the fiction could continue, that their equilibrium would remain unchanged, that he wouldn't have to have a conversation that he didn't know how to begin, much less lead.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“The best way to bury the truth is to present it as an intricate puzzle. Let everyone get lost in the clever details so they never see what’s right in front of them.”
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― Irina Semikop, Voluntary pain

“Those high walls in the suburbs are hiding criminals and kingpins. Those blue-light vehicles are escorting them. The most dangerous criminal masterminds hide in plain sight. The real kingpins and mafia figures always show their faces. They don’t wear balaclavas.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“People, people, people — an ocean of people, but I can't find even a drop of humanity.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“I am sick. I am nauseous. The problem is I am starting to understand life.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“We unconsciously both create and perceive our own experience of life, and we can become conscious of this process.”
― Chris Finn

“The more you learn about psychology, philosophy, and epistemology in regard to human perception, the more you will be able to identify how fearful people are of our perception of reality being the only one that exists.”
― J. Wesley, Love Over Fear: A Foundation for Autonomy

“It was a fairly long therapy, almost a year, but that breakthrough in the first session set the stage for success. We became a “team of two” that day. Nate became trusting, open, and ready to express, explore and resolve his horrible childhood, and my job was to provide unconditional empathy, care, a supportive presence, and to create a safe space for his beautiful work.”
― David McPhee, Get the Most From Your Therapy : A Guide For Everyone

“The false dichotomy between caring for others and caring for yourself is one of the most persistent myths that drives worry in sensitive people. The truth is that authentic care includes everyone—others and yourself.”
― András Keleti, The Sensitive Overthinker’s Path: Real Client Stories on Letting Go of Worry and Anxiety Without Losing Your Emotional Depth

“Build your circle like infrastructure: reliable, priced, and hard to steal.”
― V. Shroud

“We are tempted by our familiar way of doing things however maladaptive or self-destructive they can be.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Running Backward