Quotes by Psychologists

It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure. Jordan Peterson
Happiness Life People Responsibility Pleasure Find Through Most Impulsive Sustains Them Meaning
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. Ram Dass
Experience Path Negative Important Nothing Every Take Merely Steps Expect Proceed Including
Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference. Virginia Satir
Life You Way Supposed Makes Difference Cope
Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God's divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego's insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you. Wayne Dyer
Love God You Learning Experience Ego World Fear Light Decision Brilliant Free Doubt Design Abandoning Insistence Divine Part Make Return Always Authentic Forget Unfriendly Much Means Present
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs. Albert Ellis
Future School Overcome Seriously Every Think Herself System Rarely Disturb Disturbance School System Himself How Occurs Child Psychology Psychotherapy Teach Need
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results. Carl Jung
Overcome Valuable Calm Sense Lasting Easily Security Disturbed Results Most Leave Intense Behind Just Conflicts Which Produce Needed
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. Carl Jung
Pride Down Says Ourselves Out Something Small Voice Through Small Voice Surface Still Deceiving Tune Average Us Deep Deep Down Ever Conscience Below
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. Carl Jung
Truth Alone Knowledge Rests Also Error
It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Life Death Anger Natural Important Unfair System Find Take Attempting Feel Reaction Judging Without Leaving Loss May Unfairness Loved Loved One Forms Meaning Your Many
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Wisdom Word Thought Believe Every Consequences Our Solely Responsible Throughout Lifetime Accept Choices Deed
When you don't manage your life well, you become angry and frustrated as things don't go as intended, and our bad mood is a sign showing we were not able to resolve the conflict. Jorge Bucay
Life Angry You Conflict Bad Mood Become Resolve Our Mood Sign Bad Able Well Go Were Intended Manage Frustrated Your Showing Things
The effects of unresolved trauma can be devastating. It can affect our habits and outlook on life, leading to addictions and poor decision-making. It can take a toll on our family life and interpersonal relationships. It can trigger real physical pain, symptoms, and disease. And it can lead to a range of self-destructive behaviors. Peter A. Levine
Life Family Pain Addictions Symptoms Relationships Our Range Trigger Physical Physical Pain Outlook Unresolved Habits Take Devastating Lead Leading Self-Destructive Real Affect Effects Disease Family Life Behaviors Decision-Making Poor Toll Trauma Interpersonal
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. R. D. Laing
Thoughts Change Think Our Range Shapes Fail Failing Until Because Limited How Little Notice Deeds
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. Sigmund Freud
Reality Sometimes Pain Enjoy Complaint Bit Pleasure Must Dashed Allow Instead Pieces Accept Because Without Commend Which Against Themselves Us Therefore Illusions Save
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. Sigmund Freud
Great Mind Subconscious Pool Back Sun Rises Falling May Which Compared Conscious Fountain Conscious Mind Playing
If you can't do it, give up! Sigmund Freud
You Give Up
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. Sigmund Freud
Success World Seen Experiment Most Am America Going Afraid Grandiose
A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Viktor E. Frankl
Life Love Wisdom Truth Time Me Man Love Is Song Thought My Life First Final Saw Poets Highest First Time Ultimate Goal Which Proclaimed Aspire Many Thinkers Set
Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries. Wayne Dyer
Love You Privacy Obligations Yourself Opportunities Rejection Those Batteries Give More Duties Your Bombarded Deserved
Transformation literally means going beyond your form. Wayne Dyer
Transformation Beyond Going Form Literally Means Your
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health. Abraham Maslow
Positive Health Man Science Achieve Negative Side Virtues Has-Been About More Revealed Been His Sins Than Psychological Psychology Shortcomings Little Far Us Much Successful Aspirations Illnesses
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. Alice Miller
Feelings Unwanted Own Defense Despised Weak Weapon Contempt Against
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. Erich Fromm
Rich Gives He Much Who
Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all. Erik Erikson
Life Better Sense Other Sooner Make Learn Without Any Interdependence Us Each Need
Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life. Nathaniel Branden
Life Work Love Me Parenting You Yourself Will Sex Important Single Reputation Every Tell High Rise Factor He He Or She Most Likely Self-Esteem She Judges How His Existence Person Fulfilling Aspect Your Her
The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior. Abraham Maslow
Good People Behavior Will Feelings Affection Secure Security Give Fact
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