Thoughts. Thoughts bombard my head, my brain. My psyche

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

individuality” lost.

The American educational psychologist Patricia Alexander has expressed the view that fear paralyses and curiosity empowers. Accordingly, she reasons, we should always be more interested than afraid.

…the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.

Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

At Bow Street Magistrates’ Court the essential facts were established. The man’s name was James Tilly Matthews. He was a pauper of the south London parish of Camberwell. He had a wife and a young...

Her parents, she said, has put a pinball machine inside her head when she was five years old. The red balls told her when she should laugh, the blue ones when she should be silent...

Since when did psychiatry become one big, fat Myspace survey?

Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

Human nature is so complicated that it will never know the exact border between normality and abnormality them they..

Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can’t possibly act on.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Steve [sports psychiatrist] had already taught me to try and stop worrying so much about pleasing everyone. We knew that this was one of my most draining flaws and he again used three groups to...

Prospective research looks forward in time to see how a group of individual change over time while retrospective research looks backward in time and attempts to reconstruct the conditions that led to the current situation.

We find what’s in our own heads.

Caring for others tends to be the first cut when we review our personal time budget. It does not necessarily fulfill the goals of my ambition; it will not pave the way for my success;...

I think this point is so important, I’m going to repeat it: You should never listen to criticism that is primarily intended to wound, even if it contains more than a grain of truth.

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

Life’s managed, not cured.

The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea.

I need to make myself strong on the inside instead of what is on the outside. I know all of this, but why can’t I put any of it into action? I guess that’s why...

Since we don’t know the initial reason of life, we can’t say ‘everything happens for a reason’ (i.e. we are created and we don’t know the reason) so it’s fair to say (for our human...

Pour la majorité des gens, le physique compte en amitié et même pour les relations les plus élémentaires….je parle de cette chose si vague et si importante que l’on nomme physionomie. AU premier coup d’oeil,...

One of the best ways to support the development of patience is to cultivate happiness with yourself.

The Loguidice Fitness Equation: Eating Right + Knowing How to Workout + Consistency = Success

…American psychology effectively guaranteed its place as a cultural icon by helping to create the pathologies it simultaneously promised to treat. (p. 37)

I am small.So are stars from a distance. It’s all a matter of perspective.

To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.

Controlling unwanted thoughts is not the problem. Believing, thrusting, and taking direction from them is.

She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there.

THE STRENGTH IN KNOWING”***Convey to others more compassion, sensitivity, understanding rather than judgementalism”To find pity shall enable forgiveness to surfaceThere are good bones in everyone’s body, what varies are the numberCause and effect from the...

The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings...

Hit your hand on a stone and expect it to hurt.

What you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway.

Show a man too many camels’ bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. (Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz)

Freud expressed the opinion—not quite in earnest, though, it seemed to me—that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed sexuality, nothing more. In response I put the question, ‘What then is science,...

Perhaps the strangest thing about this illusion of control is not that it happens but that it seems to confer many of the psychological benefits of genuine control. In fact, the one group of people...

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don’t even hold it themselves.

…in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve...

As the Great Creatrix, the feminine is no vessel and passage for an alien, masculine Other that condescends towards her, enters into her, and favors her with the seed of living. Life originates in her...

Not all addictions are rooted in abuse or trauma, but I do believe they can all be traced to painful experience. A hurt is at the centre of all addictive behaviours. It is present in...

The Queen is controlling, the Witch is sadistic, the Hermit is fearful, and the Waif is helpless.And each requires a different approach. Don’t let the Queen get the upper hand; be wary even of accepting...

each day’s life comes with lot of puzzles, mysteries to unravel; being so conscious of life can make one so unconscious of life

sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more,...

Don’t you agree that if I act like there is nothing going on, other people will behave that way too?

All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility– that is, the experience of being seen and understood.

Then might I exemplify how an influence beyond our control lays its strong hand on every deed which we do, and weaves its consequences into an iron tissue of necessity. (Wakefield)