The Greatest Psychology Quotes

[NoDayDreaming]

“Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.” –Erik Erikson

“Once you start making the effort to ‘wake yourself up’—that is, be more mindful in your activities—you suddenly start appreciating life a lot more.” –Robert Biswas-Diener

“We are what we are because we have been what we have been, and what is needed for solving the problems of human life and motives is not moral estimates but more knowledge.” –Sigmund Freud

“If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.” –Jean Piaget

“If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.” –Abraham Maslow

“Everything can be taken from a man, but the last of the human freedoms: to choose one’s attitudes in any given set of circumstances.” –Viktor Frankl

“We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.” –B.F. Skinner

“Probably the biggest insight… is that happiness is not just a place, but also a process. Happiness is an ongoing process of fresh challenges, and it takes the right attitudes and activities to continue to be happy.” –Ed Diener

“It is not primarily our physical selves that limit us but rather our mindset about our physical limits.” –Ellen J. Langer

“For happy people, time is ‘filled and planned.’ For unhappy people, time is unfilled, open and uncommitted; they postpone things and are inefficient.” –Michael Argyle

“The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.” –Soren Kierkegaard

“We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.” –Virginia Satir

“The best way to find out whether you’re on the right path? Stop looking at the path.” –Marcus Buckingham

“Every person on this earth is full of great possibilities that can be realized through imagination, effort, and perseverance.” –Scott Barry Kaufmann

“Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it’s not our there is that it’s inside us.” –Sonja Lyubomirsky

“When we encounter an unexpected challenge of threat, the only way to save ourselves is to hold on tight to the people around us and not let go.” –Shawn Achor

“The truth is, bad things don’t affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That’s true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.” –Daniel Gilbert

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” –Carl G. Jung

“Be content with what you have. Rejoice in how things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking the whole world belongs to you.” –Lao Tzu

“Compassion does not render people tearful idlers, moral weaklings, or passive onlookers; but individuals who will take on the pain of others, even when given the chance to skip out on such difficult action or in anonymous conditions.” –Dacher Keltner

“When we are open to new possibilities, we find them. Be open and skeptical of everything.” –Todd Kashdan

“It’s more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly light-hearted. Yet everyone takes the happy person for granted.” –Gretchen Rubin

“Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.” –Albert Schweitzer

“Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated… the body sticks to the facts.” –Alice Miller

“Becoming is better than being.” –Carol S. Dweck

from: https://thriveworks.com/blog/greatest-p ... otes-ever/

[NoDayDreaming]

i'm actually convinced William James is the best:

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”

“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”

“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

“To change one’s life:
1. Start immediately.
2. Do it flamboyantly.
3. No exceptions.”

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”

“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.”

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”

“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”

“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”

“We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we’re happy because we laugh.”

“To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds,”

“Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.”

“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.”

“We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the
meaning of it all.”

“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”

“Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.”

“Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world.”

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”

[Maddie]

Thanks, NDD!

That one from Maslow speaks to me! Actually all those are great! I love quotes and I've found some great ones from W. Churchill that are helpful to me. One is..."If you're going through hell, keep going!!" and "never, never, never give up". I'm going to check out those links and add some more that I find.

[L-F]

Love these!

“Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it’s not our there is that it’s inside us.” –Sonja Lyubomirsky

With awareness, anything's possible - LF

[L-F]

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”

100%

Nailed it!

Hadn't seen this quote prior to now. Totally true for me.

[JohnDeux]

'the great source of terror in infancy is solitude' -- William James.

[L-F]

"Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is yours alone to sing
falls into your open cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know
how to give yourself
to this world so worthy of rescue."
Martha Postlethwaite