The thing we fear we bring to pass.
Elbert HubbardNeither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand RussellShame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.
Brene BrownIt’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that.
Jordan PetersonTo change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
William JamesFear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale CarnegieWhy does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Leonardo da VinciLove is a serious mental disease.
PlatoI like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.
Dwayne JohnsonWe judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.
Brene BrownThe simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
Thomas SowellLove matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Friedrich NietzscheMen and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.
Kevin HartThe worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.
Will RogersThe components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
Wayne DyerMen are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Dale CarnegieIt’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.
Robert KiyosakiThe connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.
Jordan PetersonEverybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.
Robert GreeneIf you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren BuffettIf the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
Eckhart TolleEvery act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
Andrew CarnegieFear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin DisraeliThe science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.
Abraham MaslowNo one loves the man whom he fears.
AristotleTo study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
William JamesMost men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.
DiogenesSuspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph AddisonThe human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
Fidel CastroMasses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Carl JungPeople who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
George CarlinThe first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund BurkeThe person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Brian TracyIf you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you’ll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.
Maya AngelouBehavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
Emily DickinsonMen are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Blaise PascalMemory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.
Albert EinsteinPeople have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.
Bob DylanWhen dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Hermann HesseFear is a spirit that produces a feeling.
Joyce MeyerYou can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
Abraham MaslowIn time we hate that which we often fear.
William ShakespeareMy life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.
Anthony HopkinsIf you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.
Abraham MaslowI love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.
RihannaAny man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J. Robert OppenheimerOvercoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
BonoTelling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
C. S. LewisWe are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.
AristotleThe human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. KennedyLook at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
ConfuciusI think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.
Thich Nhat HanhOur envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
HeraclitusThere are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel JohnsonA fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous HuxleyIn the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
Carl JungDeath and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
Noam ChomskyA person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca