4,465 Quotes About Psychology

At such a moment it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

I've observed a movement within psychotherapy, trauma therapy specifically, where therapists are discarding the idea of forgiveness. I think this misses the point. We don't want victims forgiving their attackers for having attacked them, but we do want them forgiving themselves for having been attacked. This is where healing begins.

The human psyche evolved in order to defend itself against seeing the truth. To prevent us from catching sight of the mechanism. The psyche is our defense system - it makes sure we'll never understand what's going on around us. Its main task is to filter information, even though the capabilities of our brains are enormous. For it would be impossible for us to carry the weight of this knowledge. Because every tiny particle of the world is made of suffering.

Pay attention to humans, not to your phone.

You could even be in heaven, and make it like a God damn hell in your mind. It’s your choice to choose your world.

– Искаш да кажеш, че съдбата ми е била да убия онзи човек, за да станапо-решителна, по-смела?– Не съм експерт по съдбите, само по психологията.

Diseases of the mind can be more torturous than the diseases of the body.

n sum, let us enter a plea for clinical clinicians who can distinguish unconscious depression from conscious despair, paranoia from adaptive wariness, and who can tell the difference between a sick man and a sick nation.