Psychologist Quotes

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.
Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.
Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.
The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.
This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.
Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.
That reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.
A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.
Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.
Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.
Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.
Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.
Celebrity culture is something that pains me.
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.
Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.
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