Psychology Quotes

"To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved." "Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded." "Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten." "Age is whatever you think it is." "There is a science to making your opponent wear down." "He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore." "Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?" "It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement." "Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities." "Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks." "Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young." "The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer." "The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct." "Where id was, there ego shall be." "In mourning, it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia, it is the ego itself."