Psychological quotes

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◆ I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

- Lewis Carroll100

◆ Based on psychologic study, a crush only lasts for a maximum of 4 months. If it exceeds, you are already in love.

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◆ How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.

- June Ahern99

◆ Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.

- Lisa Lutz99

◆ Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.

- David Richo99

◆ The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ Money-giving is a very good criterion of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.

- Karl Menninger Dr99

◆ Will Hunting: Does this break the patient-doctor code? Sean Maguire: Only if you grab my ass.

- Good Will Hunting99

◆ If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

- Joseph Goebbels99

◆ After ten years in therapy, my psychologist told me something very touching, he said, no hablo ingles.

- Dennis Wolfberg99

◆ Since I'm only 24 years old, guess I have as good an insight into this rising generation as any other young man my age. And I've discovered that most young men do not stand like ramrods or talk like Demosthenes. Therefore, when I do play a youth, such as in Warner Bros. Rebel Without A Cause, I try to imitate life. The picture deals with the problems of modern youth. It is the romanticized conception of the juvenile that causes much of our trouble with misguided youth nowadays. I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too. But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds. You know, a lot of times an older boy, one of the fellows the young ones idolize, can go back to the high school kids and tel

- James Dean99

◆ Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

- William James99

◆ Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

- Carl Gustav Jung99

◆ A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

- Benjamin Franklin99

◆ Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

- Carl Gustav Jung99