Top Psychology Quotes

Clockers asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for the minimum wage when everyone around you is pocketing thousands from...

But I was beginning to feel like it all fit together, the same way everything in the bowl ends up in the bisquits, as Amma would say.

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.

Once you get into your thirties, you stop giving a fuck what people think about your opinions. You're more confident.

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

How old you would become if you don't know how young you are.

Respect your needs and limitations as you work through your grief and begin to heal

Thank you Bjork Peterson for a wonderful review of my new book "Why We Love Serial Killers" @readingghost

He is not prone to remember evils, since it is proper to a magnanimous person not to nurse memories, especially not of evils, but to overlook them. He does not speak evil even of his enemies, except w...

Life is ephemeral; each moment passes quickly, a blur of color on a fast moving subway car. There and gone and all we are left with is the imprint of what once was.

Half of life is lost in charming others.The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others.Leave this play. You have played enough.

My brain has a mind of its own.

Asshole Proximity Disorder

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Where would we be without our painful childhoods?

If I want to understand an individual human being, I must lay aside all scientific knowledge of the average man and discard all theories in order to adopt a completely new and unprejudiced attitude. I...

I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have been, which is when I have been midly manic. When I am my present normal se...

Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a...

All men are troublesome but some are more troublesome than others.All women are troubles although, some are more of a trouble than others.

The rich believe that their money will insulate them from setbacks and frustrations, and that's one of the absurdist expectations of all.

We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection of situational temptations. We invest hu...