4,465 Quotes About Psychology

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.

It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

It's not that there is no small talk...It's that it comes not at the beginning of conversations but at the end...Sensitive people...'enjoy small talk only after they've gone deep' says Strickland. 'When sensitive people are in environments that nurture their authenticity, they laugh and chitchat just as much as anyone else.

People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

We forget very easily what gives us pain.

It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.