Top Psychology Quotes

If you want to know how negative you are, pay attention to how much you hate negativity in other people. Fragile, artificial positivity needs always to be surrounded by more positivity in order to sta...

The loss of a child exploits the emotions of each individual it encounters.

Psychology Definition

(n.) The science of the human soul; specifically, the systematic or scientific knowledge of the powers and functions of the human soul, so far as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on the human soul.

Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts.

How do we find words for describing levels of betrayal and emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual torture that fragment and destroy a child or cast and case traumatic shadows over the whole of adul...

Daydream, which is to thought as the nebula is to the star, borders on sleep, and is concerned with it as its frontier. An atmosphere inhabited by living transparencies: there's a beginning of the unk...

Mind is greedy. When you sense the benefits with people who previously thought rubbish about you, the mind forgoes those thoughts and inclines toward those people only to gain optimal benefits.

Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.

Allow yourself to be an anchor and anchored by others.

Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly.

As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother's writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her.

لا يمكن للإنسان أبداً أن يدرك ماذا عليه أن يفعل، لأنه لا يملك إلا حياة واحدة، لا يسعه مقارنتها بِحَيوات سابقة ولا إصلاحها في حيوات لاحقة.

The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.

زد على ذلك أن هذه الأحلام، إلى فصاحتها، كانت جميلة. لقد أغفل فرويد هذا الجانب في نظريته عن الأحلام. فالحلم ليس فقط بلاغاً (بلاغاً مرموزاً عند الاقتضاء) بل هو أيضاً نشاط جمالي ولعبة للخيال. وهذه اللعبة...

The internet and online communication is the window into your world - but real life, in person communication / connection is the door.

لم تكن الروح قادرة على إشاحة بصرها عن شائبة الولادة المستديرة السمراء فوق العانة تماماً؛ كانت الروح ترى في هذه الشائبة ختماً وسمت به الجسد، وكانت تجد أن تحرك عضو غريب على مقربة جداً من هذا الختم المقد...

The child psychologist's clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where creativity goes to drown.

There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret.

كانت التعبير عن القرف الذي تملّكها فجأة من الجنس البشري. فتذكر أنها قالت له مؤخراً: «صرت أشعر بالامتنان لك لأنك لم ترغب قط في إنجاب الأطفال».

What people don't understand about depression is how much it hurts. It's like your brain is convinced that it's dying and produces an acid that eats away at you from the inside, until all that's less...

One of the easiest things in life is to judge others. One of the simplest things we can ever do is to tell how wrong people are. One of the most thoughtless things we can ever do is to show people the...