Best Psychology Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent; the vanishing shapes are shaped anew, and a truth is valid in the end only if it suffers change and bears new witness in new images, in new tongues, like a new wine that is put into new bottles.”

“Dr. Webb says that losing a sibling is oftentimes much harder for a person than losing any other member of the family. "A sibling represents a person's past, present, and future," he says. "Spouses have each other, and even when one eventually dies, they have memories of a time when they existed before that other person and can more readily imagine a life without them. Likewise, parents may have other children to be concerned with--a future to protect for them. To lose a sibling is to lose the one person with whom one shares a lifelong bond that is meant to continue on into the future.”

“Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.”

“Not every wound makes noise. Some bleed into the soil, into the stories we pass down. Healing begins with listening.”

“Sometimes... to reach who you really are - to get to the core - you have to take that risk. Step through the fear. It's like crossing a bridge: it's scary, it's cold, the wind knocks you sideways. But once you're halfway across, you realize the view is better from there. And you don't want to go back.”

“Tears dry, lessons remain -”

“Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.”

“I think one can tell a lot about a person from the way he chooses to let the stub of his cigarette burn out...”

“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.”

“How to win in life:”

“Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists, chickens do come home to roost, and as my mother, Phyllis, liked to say, “There is always a day of reckoning.” The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits—ourselves, or to use an old fashioned word for the same idea, our souls. That is every human’s life work: to construct an identity bit by bit, to walk a path step by step, to live a life that is worthy of something higher, lighter, more fulfilling, and maybe even everlasting.”

“In this quiet place on a quiet street”

“With my ninth mind I resurrect my first”

“Just as in the second part of a verse bad poets seek a thought to fit their rhyme, so in the second half of their lives people tend to become more anxious about finding actions, positions, relationships that fit those of their earlier lives, so that everything harmonizes quite well on the surface: but their lives are no longer ruled by a strong thought, and instead, in its place, comes the intention of finding a rhyme.”

“I am strange;”

“All literature, or most literature, is about sex." (A. Burgess)”

“It is strange... the reasons one feels he doesn't deserve things.”

“An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric.”

“Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do.”

“You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.”

“Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.”

“What if the preacher or father’s saying ‘Someone here’s lost and hopeless’ was tantamount to those Sun-Times horoscopes that are specially designed to be so universally obvious that they always give their horoscope readers that special eerie feeling of particularity and insight, exploiting the psychological fact that most people are narcissistic and prone to the illusion that they and their problems are uniquely special and that if they’re feeling a certain way then surely they’re the only person who is feeling like that.”

“She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.”

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

“Wisdom occurs when intelligence and experience combine into an effective and coherent spontaneous expression”

“Beyond the mind lies true gratification — music, love, freedom, playfulness. The mind cannot grasp them; it simply dissolves and lets you enjoy.”

“The compulsion to do something for fun or pleasure is a bondage. Even wealth becomes a bondage when you think that having it means you must use it to seek pleasure and gratification.”

“There might be virtuous ways to love nature, but the love of nature is no guarantor of virtue.”

“You never bomb yourself with happiness and wonder why you can't get beyond the shellshock of life.”

“When it isn’t possible to attack what is said, they attack the one who said it.”