Quotes by Psychologists

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Sigmund Freud

Intelligence Rest Voice Until Does Hearing Intellect Gained Soft

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. Thomas Szasz

Time Feeling Nothing Everything Boredom Serenity Waste Waste Of Time

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination. Wayne Dyer

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace. Wayne Dyer

Me You Peace World Mind Nothing World Peace Everything Adopt Seems Having Attached Individual Open Most Principles Contribute Basic Basic Principles

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. William Glasser

Love Needs Freedom Survival Power Driven Genetic Five Fun Belonging

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege. Abraham Maslow

Work You Money School Society Status Takes Perform Doing Sake Privilege Grades Rewards Form Which Dislike Means External

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. Alice Miller

Forgiveness Anger Faces Head-On Genuine Does Deny

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again. B. F. Skinner

Consequences Affect Probability Again Act

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. Carl Jung

Life Problem Half Resort Hundreds Say Those Finding Religious Outlook Over Been Patients Many Whose Among Second Last Treated

I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets. Daniel Goldstein

You Stronger Think Something More Like Self-Discipline Exercise Gets Muscle

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. Erich Fromm

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. Erich Fromm

Bitter Unbearable Having Idea Without Die Lived

My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I want to finish strong. James Dobson

Good Strong Matter Important Faithful Before Says Finish He Remembered Well Well Done Lord Legacy Done Want Stand Servant

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open. Jordan Peterson

Life Eyes Responsibility Open Terrible Accept Wide

I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.' Jordan Peterson

You People Way Okay Tell Could Than Story Less Right

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth... That's the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life. Jordan Peterson

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. M. Scott Peck

Time You Yourself Will Value Until Anything Your

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. Ram Dass

Saying Me You Only Hear Which

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. Sigmund Freud

Intelligence Distressing Mentality Adult Feeble Between Contrast Child Average Radiant

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible. Wayne Dyer

Crazy Thoughts You Creative Impossible Honor Free Wish Practice Imagination Others Seeing About Instead Wishes Ideas Overflow Materialize Begin Intend Being Regardless Manifest Them Noticing Your Fully Initiate Filling Keeping Careful Imagining