4,465 Quotes About Psychology

Once a human body crosses the line of guilt, it yearns to cross the line over and over again, for just like mind, the body forms its own memories and in those memories, it misinforms itself about the pain of guilty conscience as pleasure.

Your Ego tells you that you were wronged and it validates your separation. Your Higher Self tells you that you were blessed and it validates your expansion.

لقد تم تقليم أظافر مشاعرنا كلها، وتعلمنا الكبت والمواراة، وكان الغضب أحد الأحاسيس اللي طولِبنا بقمعها، فقُمنا بنفيه لجزيرة معزولة داخلنا بعيدًا عن الوعي، وقطعنا عنه سبيل التواصل مع العالم الخارجي، أو هكذا حاولنا أن نضعه تحت الإقامة الجبرية

Some are so desperately deprived of respect these days, that they are pleased even with the smallest positive criticism. Not me darling, not me. Maybe the world will no longer be what it was, but you will still see me rowing for a common good.

There are a few principles that I have come to practice and follow in my life. And one of these principles is to not chase anyone in my life.

But in a psychological sense, the lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness. It is the expression of the inability of the individual self to stand alone and live. It is the desperate attempt to gain secondary strength where genuine strength is lacking.

[T]o the extent to which an individual is potent, that is, able to realize his potentialities on the basis of freedom and integrity of his self, he does not need to dominate and is lacking the lust for power.

Just because Pavlov rang the bell does not mean he was not still spending money on dog food

People were startled to hear that if we don’t go to the spirit, the spirit comes to us as neurosis. This is the immediate, practical connection between psychology and religion in our time.