Quotes by Psychologists

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure. James Hillman

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It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words. Jordan Peterson

You Words Own Find Until Exist Very Your Hard Actually

I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering. Kay Redfield Jamison

Depression Suffering Anxiety Whatever Sense Think Bipolar Severe One Thing Mental Mental Illness Had Fair Fair Amount Contend Deal Personal Anybody Whether Illness Actually Thing Amount Resilience

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. M. Scott Peck

Problems Only Mentally Spiritually Because Grow

On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression. Martin Seligman

Love Friendship Depression Relationship You People Victory Care Love And Friendship Increases Side Respond About Someone Probability Teach Actively

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. Nathaniel Branden

Reputation Ourselves Self Self-Esteem Esteem Acquire

Awareness without action is worthless. Phil McGraw

Action Awareness Worthless Without

It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear. Phil McGraw

People Easier Tell Instead Hear Want Much Need

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. R. D. Laing

Schizophrenia Understanding Despair Without Understood Cannot

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane. R. D. Laing

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. R. D. Laing

Life Great Great Deal Pain Only Perhaps Deal Trying Avoid Avoided

When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification. Ram Dass

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other. Ram Dass

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. Sigmund Freud

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