4,465 Quotes About Psychology

Mistakes are the foundation of achievement.

Are you going to judge a person's character by their mistakes or by their achievements?

If you have got used to living life of a king, it would seem ordinary to you. Plus you will get nightmares at the thought of losing it all. If you are used to nothing, even food on your plate and roof on your head will seem like heaven. Everything is relative.

Failure in research is far better than having ideas that are never followed up on.

So when the ruling ideology enjoins us to enjoy sex, not to feel guilty about it, since we are not bound by any prohibitions whose violations should make us feel guilty, the price we pay for this absence of guilt is anxiety.

healing is not just a desired outcome of treatment, it is a potential that is there from the start. We are wired to heal, to right ourselves, to grow and transform. This is not just a metaphor. It is what neuroplasticity is about.

So long as you’re still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

If you are feeling sad it may not just because you are disappointed today; We all have chemical hearts. There is much more going inside than we can imagine by simply living rather than by conscious living.

We stunt the growth of our relationships, usually, before they have even began and, as with everything else in life, time and growth (the natural evolution process that cannot be stopped) will push them beyond the set idea of what they were supposed to be for us. These imposed changes will feel as forced onto our relationships. They might feel harsh, ruthless, unfortunate, or unfair. They weren’t in our plans.