Quotes by Psychologists

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. Sigmund Freud

Impossible Civilization Instinct Built Renunciation Overlook Which Extent

Anatomy is destiny. Sigmund Freud

Anatomy Destiny

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. Sigmund Freud

Happiness Wisdom Alone Our Would Investing Also Concern Quarter His Cautious Anticipate Just Capital Us Businessman

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death. Stanislav Grof

Death Independently Able Could Lifetime Same After Body Function Consciousness

If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively. Tara Brach

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life. Tara Brach

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. Thomas Szasz

Time Others Laugh Longer Him Himself Person

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic. Thomas Szasz

God You Schizophrenic Talk Dead Talks

When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in. Viktor E. Frankl

Me Mine Anew Write Taken Concentration Ready Auschwitz Camp Camps Survive To Survive Certainly Helped Manuscript Deep Deep Desire Publication Desire

Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time. Viktor E. Frankl

Time Genius Spirit His Cannot Even Zeitgeist Resist

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets! Wayne Dyer

Good Home Post Toilets Car Whatever Down Favorite Out Conspicuously Stuck Throughout Highest Jot Feel Oven Sort Affirmation Office Front Microwave Your Even Here Need

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living. Wayne Dyer

Life Daily You Yourself Living Extraordinarily Way Dream Some Habits Between Within Existence Huge Your Disparity Satisfying Routines

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply. Wayne Dyer

You Be Happy Happy World Internet Will Live Our Say Says Tells Inundated More Only Supply Stuff Advertising Always Survive Short Order To Survive Us Much Things Need

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. Wayne Dyer

Life You People Treat Way Get Maxim Teach Treated

The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit. Wayne Dyer

You Understanding Say Willing Fine Fact Could Understand Greatest Exhibit

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it. Wilhelm Reich

Work Love Knowledge Our Our Lives Also Govern Should Lives

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be. Abraham Maslow

Nature Thought Human Nature Has-Been Bad Been Human Nearly

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. Abraham Maslow

Truth Passion Objectivity Real Itself Dispassionate

You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends. Abraham Maslow

Good You Man Sickness Respecting See Neurosis Toward Most Inefficient Understand Effort Psychiatrists Ends Might Compassionate Below

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time. Albert Bandura

Time Tools Over Most Well Perishable Content Textbooks Serve