Psychologist Quotes

One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child.

Begin at once to live and count each day a separate life time.”- Seneca“Our lives are the sum total of the choices we have made.

Practice radical humility when it comes to your own accomplishments, and give credit everywhere except to your ego.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.

If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

When you arrive where you thought you wanted to be, you'll just begin a new journey so enjoy each step along the way

Be Sure you Are Stepping to the Music you Hear - No Matter what Other People Think.

While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

In each of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves. When, therefore, we find ourselves in a difficult situation to which there is no solution, he can sometimes kindle a light that radically alters our attitude - the very attitude that led us into the difficult situation.

New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and, if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart.

Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

The secret to changing your life is in your intentions. Wishing, hoping and goal setting cannot accomplish change without intention. What is needed is a shift from the inert energy of wanting to the active energy of doing and intention.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

For better to come, good must stand aside.

I'm not saying that a child who was abused or beaten or abandoned made that happen, but your reaction to it is always yours.

When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace

What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong way is also a possible and a natural way, nay, more, a menacing and an imminent way? And what sense can there be in condemning ourselves for taking the wrong way, unless we need have done nothing of the sort, unless the right way was open to us as well? I cannot understand the willingness to act, no matter how we feel, without the belief that acts are really good and bad.

The mere presence of PASSION within you is all you need to fulfill your DREAMS.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.

The problem with using force in our lives is that we always create a counterforce. For example, If you're with a child and the child says, "I hate you," which is a very low energy, and you respond with, "I hate you too," you have lowered the collective energy that you are both in, and both of you will he weakened. Whereas, if you respond to, "I hate you," with love, which is what, instinctively, we know what to do, then we can dissolve and dissipate that hatred.

Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate thier boldness.

Loving Others Starts with Loving Myself

Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.

Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.

Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.

It is very hard to enroll people in anything. And there is a very big difference between the words motivate and inspire.

We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.

Marianne Williamson has written that there are really only two primary emotions in the universe, love and fear. So anytime you're feeling anxious, insecure, worried, angry or resentful, you've left love and entered fear.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Self worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for your value it is other-worth.

In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong, and our recollections of that time, like those in a time spent in rapid and interesting travel, are of something intricate, multitudinous, and long-drawn-out. But as each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly note at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to a contentless unit, and the years grow hollow and collapse.

Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world.

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

...this moment... is the only physical reality you have.

Be the cure. Don't look outside yourself for it.

I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way.

We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only thorough experiment.

The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.

There is only one time that is important-Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary person is the one with whom you are, for no person knows whether he or she will ever have dealings with anyone else: and the most important affair is, to do the person good, because for that purpose alone were human beings sent into this life!

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.