A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.

He was looking for immensity. His life was hopelessly small, everything surrounding him was nondescript and gray. And death is absolute; it is indivisible and indissoluble. The presence of the girl was pathetic (a few...

We live in a world of constant noise which captures our minds even when we are not aware of it

Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out...

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don’t understand.

Come the revolution, however, mesmerism was reconceived once more. From its beginnings many had seen it as an aristocratic fad: Mesmer (by this stage long gone to Germany and Switzerland) had made a fortune from...

Don’t let one bad moment ruin your day. Think of it as a bad minute, not a bad day, and you’ll be OK. Stress begins when your worry list is longer than your gratitude list....

pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.

Behavioral science is not for sissies.

The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.

We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.

Whether the Fed goes 25 or 50 basis points next week might mean something for managing market psychology, but it doesn’t mean nearly as much for the broader economy. Their language regarding their future considerations...

My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It’s that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana’s don’t do psychological consistency....

Q. But it seems to me there are circumstances that simply induce one to have negative emotions!A. This is one of the worst illusions we have. We think that negative emotions are produced by circumstances,...

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.

The tourists had money and we needed it; they only asked in return to be lied to and deceived and told that single most important thing, that they were safe, that their sense of security—national,...

Most of us probably fall several times a day into a fit somewhat like this: The eyes are fixed on vacancy, the sounds of the world melt into a confused unity, the attention is dispersed...

What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering and humiliation and deep hurt to a person who is trying so hard...

We are currently in the midst of the greatest epidemic sickness known to humanity.

In general, people are not drawn to perfection in others. People are drawn to shared interests, shared problems, and an individual’s life energy.Humans connect with humans. Hiding one’s humanity and trying to project an image...

Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.

A vida brota a partir de milhares de fontes vibrantes, entrega-se à todos que a agarram, recusa-se a ser expressa em frases tediosas, aceita apenas ações transparentes, palavras verdadeiras e o prazer do amor

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of...

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

if you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is to keep a pair of cats.” And with that I left him. I hope, for...

Directing the mind to stay in the present can be a formidable task.

Healthy people have healthy boundaries. Unhealthy people, well, let’s not get into that. It’s like this: some people have walls which means they let no one in. This equals unhealthy. Some people let everyone in...

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

It is strange… the reasons one feels he doesn’t deserve things.

Nature has no use for the plea that one ‘did not know’.

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

A man kept his character even when he was insane.

Of course present knowledge of psychology is nearer to zero than to complete perfection, and its applications to teaching must therefore be often incomplete, indefinite, and insecure. The application of psychology to teaching is more...

The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaA fool:A man trying to be honest with the dishonest.

Question 3: Why should a person study Sufism?Answer: Because he was created to study it; it is his next step.

After years of research, depth psychologists and others argue that each sex carries both the psychological and physical traits of the other. No man is purely masculine, just as there is no purely feminine woman....

Solutions to mankind’s problems are easy and obvious. They remain unsolved because those who could solve them – don’t want to.

As students of the silver screen recall, Bogart’s admonition about future regret led Bergman to board the plane and fly away with her husband. Had she stayed with Bogey in Casablanca, she would probably have...

Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited by their immaturity and the brokenness of their external world.

Umut kendi içinde çelişkilidir (paradoksaldır). Ne edilgin bekleyiştir, ne de gerçekleşmesi olanaksız koşulların gerçekçi olmayan bir şekilde zorlanmasıdır. Atlama anı geldiğinde sıçrayacak olan çömelik bir kaplana benzer umut. Ne yorgun reformculuk umudun bir anlatımıdır ne...

However, the natural symbol, without our being sufficiently conscious of the fact, is identical with the reality of the world that appears to us, for every object in the natural world is at the same...

Pick a number between one to ten. Now, pick the number that you think I picked you to pick.

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history

Oh, come on! Nobody’s favorite color is BROWN!

Even sleep offered no respite from my mental disorders. There was Nightmare Disorder, which is diagnosed when the sufferer dreams of being “pursued or declared a failure.” All my nightmares involve someone chasing me down...

Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.

The challenge for people today–and it is not and easy one–is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.

All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic.