All Quotes By Tag: Psychology

“Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings.”

“we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay…, from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally from our relations with other men… This last source is perhaps more painful to use than any other. (p77)”

“If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don’t think it’s the children who need to be adjusted.”

“Science and Truth are simple phenomenon of nature, but it is the known that is preventing us from mastering the unknown.”

“Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach.”

“Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else’s behavior in order to gain pity, sympathy or evoke compassion and thereby get something from another. Caring and conscientious people cannot stand to see anyone suffering and the manipulator often finds it easy to play on sympathy to get cooperation.”

“Pure happiness and peace are at their peak when your body is in harmony with itself.”

“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently.”

“Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known.”

“Perfectionists are not all negative, miserable, unhappy and over controlling individuals”

“Life is a purposeful action.”

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

“PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.”

“You’re only as good as your next thought of yourself.”

“You’re only as good as you’re next thought of yourself.”