Quotes by Psychologists

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. Abraham Maslow

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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. Abraham Maslow

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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane. Abraham Maslow

Insane Out Find Go Curious Why

People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong. Albert Bandura

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Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional. Albert Ellis

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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time. Anna Freud

Time Myself Strength Confidence Looking Outside Within Always

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. B. F. Skinner

Love Great Reading Books Should Teach

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. Havelock Ellis

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No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life. Jordan Peterson

Life Responsibility Own Take No-One Gets Anything Your Away Ever

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. Karl A. Menninger

Life Hope Suicide Weapon Major Normal Normal Life Impulse Against Necessity

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Karl A. Menninger

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Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan. Phil McGraw

You Wait Crisis Come Until Up Plan

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. Sigmund Freud

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America is a mistake, a giant mistake. Sigmund Freud

Mistake Giant America

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. Theodore Isaac Rubin

Problem Problems Thinking Otherwise Having Expecting

Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water. Wayne Dyer

Water Ocean All Things About Allowing Powerful Like Most Most Powerful Always Patiently Flexible Grasping Things Flow

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind. Wayne Dyer

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