Psychology Quotes

"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" "One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." "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." "Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. " "The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. " "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. " "Belief creates the actual fact" "It is much easier to scam people for billions than it is to scam them for millions" "What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution." "Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear." "The competition is not between you and someone else; it’s between you and your ego." "Dreaming is a kind of mental illness or rather something more commonly paired with it." "6: Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." "There is nothing essentially wrong with the feeling of a profound sadness that accompanies loss" "The possession of anything begins in the mind."