The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

I’ve come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I’m just ‘being’, and without question, by default, it works.

It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPenitent: Someone who has been made incapable of enjoying himself.

The lightning said to the oak tree: ‘Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!

Your current body is the only body that can take you to your new body—so be kind to it.

How do you know if your inner voice or sense of guidance is your deeper-self speaking its wisdom, your unconscious childhood programming, or the voice of your Aunt Matilda? Discerning the difference between an automatic...

Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.

We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind, is to bring upon us an apocalypse of the Soul.

Tutku insanın, amaçlarına ulaşma çabası gösterme yeteneğidir.

Enquanto a consciência patriarcal aniquila o tempo e ultrapassa os lentos processos de transformação e evolução da natureza através do uso deliberado de experimentação e calculo, a consciência matriarcal permanece pesa ao encantamento da lua...

…it is impossible to reason people out of affiliations they have not been reasoned into.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

În clipa c nd ți se impune să nu te g ndești la un lucru, te vei g ndi doar la el, obsesiv. Interdicția devine obligație.

It seems that there’s a part of our psyche that doesn’t know the difference between an agreement about cleaning the garage and an agreement about buying a company

Is that the ultimate need? To secure some agent to act as a salve, a bandage, a cover-up, concealer over the black eye, as opposed to facing the issue head on. Nobody wants to address...

One of the great self-deceptions–and one of the great foolishnesses–is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people...

Dr. Webb says that losing a sibling is oftentimes much harder for a person than losing any other member of the family. “A sibling represents a person’s past, present, and future,” he says. “Spouses have...

Well anything thats interesting in a film, or in a character (all your passion, your sex, your anger, your rage, all that) comes from that part of you that you want to hide and push...

My job is to assist you in finding the answer that is right for you. Not the answer that would be right for me.

So I was just thinking about how something happened today and it was quite insightful, humbling and puts things into perspective. If you look at anything, everything has it’s ‘story’ so to speak. For instance,...

When psychologists Catherine Caldwell-Harris and Ayse Ayçiçegi compared U.S. and Turkish samples, they found that having “an orientation inconsistent with societal values” is a risk factor for poor mental health. The findings support what the...

I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, p. 99)

The Air Loom had been constructed by the Jacobins in Paris around the time of their coup d’etat in 1793. Just as they had corrupted the ideals of the Enlightenment to their despotic ends, so...

But money spent while manic doesn’t fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you’re given excellent reason to be even more so.

how are they going to get me?”). Persecution becomes inevitable, inescapable. And once you get into the victim mindset, you’re fucked. The bullies don’t even need to hurt you now; your poor, warped, pathetic brain...

The mind thinks thoughts that we don’t plan. It’s not as if we say, ‘At 9:10 I’m going to be filled with self-hatred.

Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we’re encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old...

Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.

The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.

I’ll see it when I believe it

As Mollie said to Dailey in the 1890s: “I am told that there are five other Mollie Fanchers, who together, make the whole of the one Mollie Fancher, known to the world; who they are...

Oh, you have to charge ’em, Jubal. The marks won’t pay attention if it’s free.

I resolved to come right to the point. “Hello,” I said as coldly as possible, “we’ve got to talk.””Yes, Bob,” he said quietly, “what’s on your mind?” I shut my eyes for a moment, letting...

For children, parents are a yardstick for normalcy.

SELFHOOD AND DISSOCIATIONThe patient with DID or dissociative disorder not otherwise specified (DDNOS) has used their capacity to psychologically remove themselves from repetitive and inescapable traumas in order to survive that which could easily lead...

The person following is never in control, which she knows full well and which is exactly why she does it.

The human tendency toward confirmatory thinking – all of us are bias to seek information that fits what we already believe.

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...

Maybe we choose to stay in a constant state of ignorance as a protective instinct — maybe I was just in denial. I just don’t get how you can be completely in love with someone...

All literature, or most literature, is about sex.” (A. Burgess)

There is a characteristic INTJ expression which has become popularly termed “the death glare.” This facial expression is actually not a glare, but the INTJ’s neutral face.

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

natural” gifts. Just as you can practice lifting weights and get bigger muscles over time, you can also practice certain mental patterns that deepen and enlarge in your mind.

At times, the confident lose confidence, the patient lose their cool, the generous act selfish, and the knowledgeable second guess what they know. And guess what? We’re all human. We all make mistakes, we lose...

The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.

Lékařská diagnóza není obžaloba a nemoc není žádná hanba, ale neštěstí.

I would much rather have my grotesque products of the imagination compared to your delusional sanity.

Will there never be an end that also has a beginning? Will there never be continuity bridging the awful void between now and some other time, a time in the future, a time in the...

You think you’re losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it’s not all gone.