Psychology Quotes

"The primary events of trauma rarely end when the traumatic experience itself ends" "Nature designed us to need nourishing relationships to survive" "I never trust people with no appetite. It’s like they’re always holding something back on you." "Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete." "A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost." "One can be the master of what one does but never of what one feels." "People are afraid to take risks, not because of the stakes involved, but because of the risk of failure." "The people that are inclined to hate, are also inclined to be losers." "Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious." "The urge to ascend in control, the drive to survive, is rooted deep in our evolutionary past." "The concept of guilt has always played a crucial role in the human condition. Every human action is accompanied by a shadow of responsibility." "The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time immemorial." "The individual becomes impaired, and the sum of individual potentials freeze to make a general force." "We must allow fantasies to teach us important truths about our desires." "The voice of intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear." "I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system." "The truth is that belief creates the actual fact." "There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more." "Sadness is a vice" "The passion for enquiry, the study of human nature, "