Psychologist Quotes

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Doubt is the brother of shame.
Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.
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