4,465 Quotes About Psychology

Your greatest problems in life aren’t the actions you take, the emotions you have or the things that happen to you: they’re the thoughts you fail to manage.

Because no one teaches us the distinction between subjective, external influence and universal truth, we crystallise negative beliefs we develop in childhood and carry them through to adulthood and live in an endless cycle of stress, depression, anxiety and of beating ourselves up for being the way we are.

If your negative bias is skewed against your favour because you believe you’re inherently wrong and not good enough, nearly everything you do or experience will feed into and support your negative bias and limiting beliefs because one factor is always constant: you.

Whilst it may feel comforting and easier to view your life through a filter of It’s not my fault. They made me do it. It made me this way, this submission to a state of powerlessness is not only debilitating but also smacks of immaturity. Whether or not you’re conscious of your desires, the victim mentality is driven by two core needs: sympathy and vindication.

Ficamos conhecendo o ser humano como talvez nenhuma geração humana antesde nós. O que é, então, um ser humano? É o ser que sempre decide o que ele é. É oser que inventou as câmaras de gás; mas é também aquele ser que entrou nascâmaras de gás, ereto, com uma oração nos lábios.

Ficamos conhecendo o ser humano como talvez nenhuma geração humana antes de nós. O que é, então, um ser humano? É o ser que sempre decide o que ele é. É o ser que inventou as câmaras de gás; mas é também aquele ser que entrou nas câmaras de gás, ereto, com uma oração nos lábios.

...tendemos a preferir la "certeza de la miseria a la miseria de la incertidumbre".

Despite what the words "attention deficit" imply, ADHD is not a deficit of attention, but rather a challenge of regulating it at will or on demand.

It's one thing to speak of humans' essential nature theoretically, another to consider it when a fist is smashing into your mouth.