4,465 Quotes About Psychology

It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings.

Mais les enfants ne connaissent point ce bris de prison qu'on nomme le suicide

And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

My head is a prison I’ve been locked in from the start,So if I'm treated like a criminal I might as well play the part.(attrib: E. Tancarville)

Literature keeps presenting the most vicious things to us an entertainment, but what it appeals to is not any pleasure of these things, but the exhilaration of standing apart from them and being able to see them for what they are because they aren't really happening. The more exposed we are to this, the less likely we are to find an unthinking pleasure in cruel or evil things. As the eighteenth century said in a fine mouth-filling phrase, literature refines our sensibilities.

Have faith, let go, and gravitate towards. 

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaEmotionalist:A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.

It was the perfect set. Theseus gave a great war cry and brought his sword arcing up toward Sheba’s throat - but the monster of the labyrinth lives inside us all. She is the dark, devouring hunger that is never sated, the creeping shadow that ever plays the fiend to our seraphim, the secret rage hidden in our hearts; deny her, and we become her slaves; fight her, and we make her invincible. By now, you must know that no monster can ever be killed, not really - […]

The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it,” I offered tentatively. “It was very convincing.