Psychology Quotes

"As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can" "People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty." "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." "The competition is not between you and someone else; it’s between you and your ego." "Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear." "What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution." "It is much easier to scam people for billions than it is to scam them for millions" "One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." "It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the skills we think we have " "When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you" "Give a guy a girlfriend and a great job, he doesn’t need therapy" "You become what you believe" "Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers, or equations" "To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet" "Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. " "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. " "The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. " "Hate is only a form of love that hasn't found a way to express itself logically" "A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world." "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."