Psychological Quotes - Page 17

• Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause. Good deeds are, in a deeper psychological way, a favor to oneself. If this is not grasped, then our whole sense of personal relationships becomes warped.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Nice, Done, Deeds

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through understanding the contents of his own mind, through observation, not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.

  Radhanath Swami

  Philosophical, Men, Organization

  Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away

  Anne Tyler

  Ordinary, Mystery, Celebrate Life

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• The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy.

  Tom Platz

  Bodybuilding, Tools, Atrophy

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• I have searched everywhere to find an answer to my question, 'Is there enlightenment?' but have never questioned the search itself. Because I have assumed that goal of enlightenment exists, I have had to search. It is the search itself which has been choking me and keeping me out of my natural state. There is no such thing as spiritual or psychological enlightenment because there is no such thing as spirit or psyche at all. I have been a damn fool all my life, searching for something which does not exist. My search is at an end.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Goal, Enlightenment

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• I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Healing, Doctors, Ideas

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• This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave.

  Kenny Loggins

  Spiritual, Healing, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Essence, Awakening

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• To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Life, Self Esteem, Opposites

  Nathaniel Branden (2001). “The Psychology of Self-Esteem: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Understanding that Launched a New Era in Modern Psychology”, Jossey-Bass

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• While we can't begin to repay the debt we owe our veterans for their brave service, we can certainly take steps to ease the physical, psychological and financial hardships they may be experiencing.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Veterans Day, Financial Hardship, Our Veterans

  "Being a Voice for Our Veterans" by Kirsten Gillibrand, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2010.

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• Marriage is very secure. It is safe. There is no growth in it. One is simply stuck. Marriage is a sexual arrangement; intimacy is a search for love. Marriage is a sort of prostitution, a permanent sort. One has got married to a woman or to a man - it is a permanent prostitution. The arrangement is economical, not psychological, not of the heart.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Heart, Men

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• The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it have not accepted the very elementary psychological fact that people (all people, of every age) remember the things that are important to them - the things they need to know - and forget the rest.

  Daniel Quinn

  Children, Ideas, People

  "Schooling: The Hidden Agenda". Daniel Quinn's Address at the Annual Conference of the North American Association for Environmental Education in Vancouver, Canada, www.ishmael.org. August 16, 1997.

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• The essential psychological requirement of a free society is the willingness on the part of the individual to accept responsibility for his life. - Edith Packer
  When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny.

  Thomas Paine

  Responsibility, Government, People

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• Man has got to take charge of Man.... Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has no 'take-it-or-leave-it' nonsense. A real education makes the patient what it wants infallibly: whatever he or his parents try to do about it. Of course, it'll have to be mainly psychological at first. But we'll get on to biochemical conditioning int he end and direct manipulation of the brain.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Real, Mean

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• In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreign to it. To live out the doubling and call forth the evil is a moral choice for which one is responsible, whatever the level of consciousness involved.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Mean, Self, Evil

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• Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him.

  Luc Montagnier

  Support, Function, Critical

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• There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time. . . . A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Home, Special, Together

  Marjorie Holmes (1995). “Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and insane environment is of itself not "health" but sickness and insanity.

  James Agee

  Education, Sick, Insanity

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.274, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Happiness is the death of the ego. If you want to remain a separate entity from existence as almost everybody is trying to do, you will be afraid of being blissful, cheerful. You will feel guilty in being blissful. You will feel suicidal because you are committing suicide on the psychological level, on the level of the ego.

  Rajneesh

  Suicide, Suicidal, Ego

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• The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

  Robert Biswas-Diener

  Good Life, Sadness, Psychology

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• Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensations joined to certain central cerebral processes... It is contradicted by the fact of consciousness itself, which cannot possibly be derived from any physical qualities of material molecules or atoms.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Law, Psychology, Quality

  Wilhelm Wundt, (2013). “An Introduction to Psychology”, p.78, Read Books Ltd

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• There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Psychology, Failing, Source

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.

  Garry Kasparov

  Character, Player, Psychology

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• ... Tal accepted absolutely all the world champion's conditions with a smile, taking away a very important psychological trump card from him - the harsh, prickly relations with his opponent that were characteristic of all Botvinnik's matches.

  Gennadi Sosonko

  Psychology, Champion, Important

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• The psychological effects of having to hold a prospectless position for what might seem an infinite amount of time does nothing to aid the defender's concentration.

  Michael Stean

  Learning, Psychology, Doe

  Michael Stean (2013). “Simple Chess: New Algebraic Edition”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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