4,465 Quotes About Psychology

You’re one of those people who tries to find comfort in overanalyzing old things to make more sense of them, when in reality, complexity is a product of insecurity, and insecurity a product of being unable to accept the simple reality of the situation

The psyche’s attachment to the brain, i.e., its space-time limitation, is no longer as self-evident and incontrovertible as we have hitherto been led to believe. … It is not only permissible to doubt the absolute validity of space-time perception; it is, in view of the available facts, even imperative to do so.

No one taught us how to address our impulses. No one.

[W]ishing for immortality won't make life last any longer.

Upon learning that her cancer had spread to her spine, Paula prepared her thirteen year-old son for her death by writing him a letter of farewell that moved me to years. In her final paragraph she reminded him that the lungs in the human fetus do not breathe, nor do it's eyes see. Thus, the embryo is being prepared for an existence it cannot yet imagine

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

The more I know, the more I realize that I don't know much at all...

You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it. ~Pat Obuchowski

It is time to climb the mountains of our mind