More quotations tagged with “psychology”
After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes: "No hablo inglés.
—Ronnie Shakes
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
—Edward Gibbon
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
—Lou Holtz
To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior "righteous indignation" — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.
—Aldous Huxley
A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered — in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters.
—Tracy Thompson