August 2012
15 posts
Soren Kierkegaard
“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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John Dewey
“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”
-John Dewey
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Welcome to Psychology Quotes. Whenever I find a quote related to psychology or mental health, I’ll post it on this blog. I’m attempting to build up a collection of quotes from different figures in psychology history including psychologist, philosophers,…
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Hippocrates
“Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.”
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Rollo May
“Now it is no longer a matter of deciding what to do, but of deciding how to decide.”
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“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
—William James
“People don’t just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.”
—Albert Ellis
“Now it is no longer a matter of deciding what to do, but of deciding how to decide.”
—Rollo May
“Recovering from anxiety is like the Chinese finger trap, the more you struggle then the worse it gets; begin to learn to live alongside it.”
—Paul David, Author of At Last a Life: Anxiety and Panic Free
“It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.”
—Stanley Milgram
“Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.”
—Erik H. Erikson
“The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.”
—Carl Jung
“When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.”
—Abraham Maslow
“Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they think.”
—Martin Seligman
