4,465 Quotes About Psychology

I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.

Get on with you, mooning about, wallowing in gooey sentiment. It doesn’t change anything.“It does, though,” said Tess, a blaze igniting in her heart, a blue flame. “Maybe the world isn’t really different, but I am different, and I am in the world.”Not just in it. She was it.

Rather than being guided by images of how to be, people need to attend to how they actually are and to respect this.

The beauty of death is that it is a constant reminder of the limited time we spend here in this unique life on Earth. It is the ongoing wakeup call that reminds us to be joyous, to laugh, to love, to be compassionate and grateful, and most of all – to forgive.

Stories serve multiple purposes. At a basic level they are great entertainment, which is essential for living a happy and healthy life, but on a deeper level stories help us explore issues that are otherwise difficult to address. On one hand a good book helps us escape our troubles, and on the other hand it can help us face up to those troubles by bringing real issues to the fore, often in a more manageable way, since the problems are experienced vicariously through the eyes of another.

Aronson's first law:People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy.

The natural laws of life is not an idea but the truth that holds life on existence. Once you realize the truth within, all your problems and queries of life, cease to exist.

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.

The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom.