4,465 Quotes About Psychology

Detachment is being apathetic or aloof to other people, while un-attachment is acknowledging and honoring other people, while choosing not to let them influence your emotional well being. Detached would mean I do not care, while un-attached means I care, although I am not going to alter my emotional state due to your emotions, words, or actions.

As a recent editorial in the Journal of Clinical Oncology put it: "What we must first remember is that the immune system is designed to detect foreign invaders, and avoid out own cells. With few exceptions, the immune system does not appear to recognize cancers within an individual as foreign, because they are actually part of the self.

انظر إلى غدك كما تنظر في يومك ، فليست الحياة كلها شبابا ، وليست المسرات العابرة هذه مما يُبقي للإنسان رصيدا في أعين الناس ، إنك محتاج إلى الكف عما أنت في سبيله ، لتعيش حياة مستقرة تحفظ فيها شبابك وسمعتك ، لا يغرنك صغر سني ، فإني قد عرفت الحياة معرفة لا تخطر لك على بال .(حسن فريز – قصة / العطر والتراب )

The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.

..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature's way

You -have- to love your monster.

The mind is like a circuit ofChristmas tree lights. When thebrain works well, all of the lightstwinkle brilliantly, and it’s adaptableenough that, often, even if one bulbgoes out, the rest will still shine on.But depending on where thedamage is, sometimes that oneblown bulb can make the wholestrand go dark.

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

The manner of Demoivre's death has a certain interest for psychologists. Shortly before it, he declared that it was necessary for him to sleep some ten minutes or a quarter of an hour longer each day than the preceding one: the day after he had thus reached a total of something over twenty-three hours he slept up to the limit of twenty-four hours, and then died in his sleep.