Psychologist Quotes

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
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