Quotes on “psychology”

What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.

How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.