Quotes by Psychologists - Page 2

If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham in which our selves are determined by the will of others in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us.
Nena O'Neil
It is possible to be different and still be all right.
Anne Wilson Schaef
Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality it cannot be transferred. No two persons if sincere can have the same philosophy.
Havelock Ellis
Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive along with which comes the inner voice which says "This is the real me " and when you have found that attitude follow it.
William James
Personality too is destiny.
Erik H. Erikson
In my clinical experience the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
Rollo May
I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is they would say if they are honest that it is a big department store with new things every week - all the money to buy them and maybe a little more than the neighbours.
Erich Fromm
Don't spend time beating on a wall hoping to transform it into a door.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have the more we want. And for this reason we never have it all.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces marriage is also three meals a day sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man is by necessity uncertain.
Erich Fromm
Don't quote me that's what you heard not what I said.
Lawrence K. Frank
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Rollo May
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
William James
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
What we call progress is the exchange of one Nuisance for another Nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
Edward de Bono
There is no movement without our own resistance.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
The exercise of prayer in those who habitually exert it must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.
William James
The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us but that we will hear Him.
William McGill
If you want a quality act as if you already had it.
William James
If you want your children to improve let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Haim Ginott
We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.
Mildred Newman
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
William James
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create that fact.
William James
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of our venture.
William James
In philosophy it is not the attainment of the goal that matters it is the things that are met with by the way.
Havelock Ellis
The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence.
William James
Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.
Anne Wilson Schaef
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
William James
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and in a sense tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.
William James
Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.
Henry Link
Jealousy that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Henry Havelock Ellis
That which is horrifying to you don't do to anybody else.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Modern man thinks he loses something-time-when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains- except kill it.
Erich Fromm
If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham in which our selves are determined by the will of others in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us.
Nena O'Neil
It is possible to be different and still be all right.
Anne Wilson Schaef
Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality it cannot be transferred. No two persons if sincere can have the same philosophy.
Havelock Ellis
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.
Erich Fromm
Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive along with which comes the inner voice which says "This is the real me " and when you have found that attitude follow it.
William James
Personality too is destiny.
Erik H. Erikson
In my clinical experience the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
Rollo May
I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is they would say if they are honest that it is a big department store with new things every week - all the money to buy them and maybe a little more than the neighbours.
Erich Fromm
Don't spend time beating on a wall hoping to transform it into a door.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Dr. Harriet Braiker
Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have the more we want. And for this reason we never have it all.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces marriage is also three meals a day sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man is by necessity uncertain.
Erich Fromm
Don't quote me that's what you heard not what I said.
Lawrence K. Frank
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Rollo May
I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Abraham Maslow
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
William James
What we call progress is the exchange of one Nuisance for another Nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
Edward de Bono
There is no movement without our own resistance.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger