372 quotes found
“It is their attachment to us rather than their independence from us that we value in our pets.”
“Paradoxically .. the very feminist movement that gave women more options also helped create pressure on many of us to be strong, successful, and independentthe kind of women who would theoretically...”
“It is not what we do but how we feel doing what we do that matters.”
“Uncertainty. Vulnerability. Death. Hard truths have a secret power over us. Wed rather ignore them.”
“It is not how much money or luxury you avail a child that counts, but how well you nurture and raise the child to become useful, and a more productive individual in the society that matters”
“There is no amount of love that is worth the life of a child.”
“I might not be the most intelligent one amongst my peers but with the little knowledge I acquired over the years, I was able to give back to the society that has made me the man I have become today.”
“Too much possibility is the attempt by the person to overvalue the powers of the symbolic self. It reflects the attempt to exaggerate one half of the human dualism at the expense of the other. In t...”
“Chances are, when you were young, you were told, in effect, "Listen, kid, here is the news: life is not about you. Life is not about what you want. What you want is not important. Life is about doi...”
“As it almost always was when I'd been too self-centered to see the truth of the matter, I felt impossibly foolish.”
“By nature, however, we are born ignorant. Therefore should we not try to learn? Some people produce more than the usual amount of androgens and therefore become excessively aggressive. Does that me...”
“I see the last two millennia as laid out in columns, like a reverse ledger sheet. It's as if I'm standing at the top of the twenty-first century looking downwards to 2000. Future centuries float as...”
“After years of research, depth psychologists and others argue that each sex carries both the psychological and physical traits of the other. No man is purely masculine, just as there is no purely f...”
“There are people who fantasize about suicide, and paradoxically, these fantasies can be soothing because they usually involve either fantasizing about others' reactions to one's suicide or imaginin...”
“I maintain, then, that scientific psychology (and, it may be added, the psychology of the same kind that we all unconsciously practise when we try to "figure to ourselves" the stirrings of our own ...”
“I hate it that she has so insinuated herself into the interstices of my mind that I can never root her out. And most of all, I hate that at the end of my life I feel compelled to ask, "How'd I do, ...”
“The placebo effect has an evil twin known as the nocebo effect. This is when the expectation of harm or pain becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy, even in the absence of any known physical effect. On...”
“I'll see it when I believe it”
“I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, p. 99)”
“Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver”
