Psychological proverbs

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◆ Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.

- Asa Don Brown99

◆ We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

- Nikola Tesla99

◆ There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.

- Dion Fortune99

◆ You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.

- Ashly Lorenzana99

◆ You can never be free of their criticism until you no longer seek their praise.

- Dennis Ruane99

◆ How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.

- Criss Jami99

◆ Don't hide what you have just because people tell you it's not normal. I have known normal people…and guess what? They are as boring as hell...

- Sidney Knight99

◆ La souffrance physique on la subit, la souffrance morale on la choisit.

- éric-Emmanuel Schmitt99

◆ Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them.

- Nenia Campbell99

◆ If I don't defend for myself, who will?

- Wesley T. Calaway99

◆ Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage.

- Edward M. Hallowell99

◆ God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

- Dr. Abraham Joshua Heschel99

◆ Jeopardy, Mom! You have got to get on Jeopardy! Seriously! You could marry Alex Trebek! You could be Alex and Alex Trebek! You could be Alex SQUARED!

- Diane L. Randle99

◆ If you enjoy sticking a straw in a dog's ear, don't sit next to the pooch with a milkshake.

- Alan Rogers99

◆ Psychic change, as Todorov has recognized, subverted the genre in another way, by revoking the cultural taboos, the social censorship, that had prohibited the overt treatment of psychosexual themes, which then found covert expression in the supernatural tale. 'There is no need today to resort to the devil [or to posthumous reverie] in order to speak of excessive sexual desire, and none to resort to vampires in order to designate the attraction exerted by corpses: psychoanalysis, and the literature which is directly or indirectly inspired by it, deal with these matters in undisguised terms. The themes of fantastic literature have become, literally, the very themes of the psychological investigations of the last fifty years.

- Howard Kerr99