4,465 Quotes About Psychology

What happens when we stop pathologizing difference?

The world will benefit significantly from talents such as empathy, emotional intensity, certitude, sensitivity, ability to detect details, depth of thought, will to embrace, and many other things that we need in a time where alienation, coldness, superficiality, and emotional hardness are predominating.

The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected.

You can be a good daughter or you can be a good mother, but you can't be both. It is your decision and it is yours only.

The human race was ill-prepared for such a calamity of events to unfold.

A belief has no relation to the truth, nevertheless it is a quintessential part of human existence.

We are not one-dimensional, and our multiple dimensions are not static. Just as our bodies aremade of many parts that form a dynamic, interwoven system that works together, so it is withour psyches. We are more awake, alive, and complex than we know.

Sometimes it can seem like your inner child part isn’t receptive to your care. It’s as if this part ofyou isn’t used to receiving such goodness from others, or even from you, and they might nottrust it. If that happens, know that this is common and will change over time. Sometimes weneed to make amends with our parts for how things have been until now. Sometimes we justneed to gently continue wishing them well regardless of their reaction.

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?