Words of World Famous Psychologist

Rony malasman
7 min readJan 14, 2023

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  1. “Life is meaningless without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for all of us.” — Erik Erikson
  2. “When you start making an effort to awaken yourself — that is, to be more mindful in your activities — you suddenly begin to appreciate life much more.” –Robert Biswas-Diener
  3. “We are what we are because we are what we are. What is needed to solve the problems of human life and motives is more knowledge, not moral guesswork.” — Sigmund Freud
  4. “If you want to be creative, stay partly a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.” -Jean Piaget
  5. “If you purposely plan to be less than you might be, I warn you that you will be unhappy for the rest of your life.” –Abraham Maslow
  6. “Everything can be taken from a man, but the last of human freedoms: to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.” — Victor Frankl
  7. “We should not teach great books; We must teach the love of reading. Knowing the content of a few works of literature is an insignificant achievement. The tendency to keep reading is a great success.” –B.F. Skinner
  8. “Probably the greatest insight… is that happiness is not just a place, it is a process. Happiness is an ongoing process with new challenges and requires the right attitudes and activities to continue to be happy.” –Ed Diener
  9. “It is not primarily our physical self that limits us, but our mindset about our physical limits.” –Ellen J. Langer
  10. “For happy people, time is ‘full and planned’. For unhappy people, time is unfilled, open and uncommitted; They procrastinate and are unproductive.” –Michael Argyle
  11. “The loftiest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard, read, or seen, but to be experienced if desired.” –Soren Kierkegaard
  12. “We need 4 hugs a day to survive. We need 8 hugs a day for care. We need 12 hugs a day to grow.” –Virginia Satyr
  13. “The best way to know if you’re on the right track? Stop looking at the road.” –Marcus Buckingham
  14. “Every person in this world is full of great possibilities that can be realized through imagination, effort and perseverance.” –Scott Barry Kaufmann
  15. “Happiness is not there for us to find it. The reason it is not there for us is because it is within us.” –Sonja Lyubomirsky
  16. “When faced with the threat of an unexpected threat, the only way to save ourselves is to cling to the people around us and not let go.” — Shawn Chord
  17. “The truth is, bad things don’t affect us as deeply as we might expect. This goes for good things too. We adapt very quickly to both.” –Daniel Gilbert
  18. “Even a happy life cannot exist without some measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” –Carl G. Jung

The Most Beautiful Psychological Quotes

  1. “Make do with what you have. Enjoy how things are. When you realize that there is nothing missing, the whole world belongs to you.” -Lao Tzu
  2. “Compassion does not make people lame idlers, morally weaker, or passive bystanders; but individuals who would bear the pain of others even if given the chance to bypass such a difficult act, or even in anonymous circumstances.” — Dacher Keltner
  3. “When we are open to new possibilities, we find them. Be open and approach everything with suspicion.” –Todd Kashdan
  4. “Being happy is more selfless. Being open-hearted at all times takes energy, generosity and discipline. Yet everyone underestimates the happy person.” –Gretchen Rubin
  5. “Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when shared.” –Albert Schweitzer
  6. “True feelings cannot be produced and destroyed… the body clings to reality.” –Alice Miller
  7. “Being is better than being.” — Carol S. Dweck
  8. “The advice I would give to someone who is struggling quietly is this: You don’t have to live that way. You don’t have to fight silently. You can remain silent. As long as you are open with someone about it, you can live well with a mental health condition because it is really important to share your experience with people so that you can get the help you need.” — Demi Lovato
  9. “You don’t always have to be positive. It’s completely normal to feel sad, angry, frustrated, frustrated, scared, and anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a negative person. It makes you human.” — Lori Deschene
  10. “Everything has a crack, that’s how the light gets in” — Leonard Cohen
  11. “I understand your pain. Believe me, I will. I’ve seen people go from the darkest moments of their lives to living a happy and fulfilling life. You can do it too. I believe you. You are not a burden. You will never be a burden.” — Sophie Turner
  12. “Mental health issues don’t define who you are. They are something you experience. You walk in the rain and feel the rain, but you are not the rain.” — Matt Haig
  13. “If you’re broken, you don’t have to stay broken.” — Selena Gomez
  14. “We don’t begin to understand ourselves until we get lost” — Henry David Thoreau
  15. “There is hope even if your brain tells you it isn’t.” — Green John
  16. “Promise me you will always remember: you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — Christopher Robin by Winnie the Pooh
  17. “If you’re going through hell, go ahead.” — Winston Churchill
  18. “Change what you can do, manage what you can’t.” — Raymond McCauley
  19. “Mental health affects every aspect of your life. It’s not just this neat little thing you can put in a box.” — Shannon Purser
  20. “Your current circumstances do not determine where you can go; they just determine where to start.” — Nido Qubein
  21. “You are the only thing in this world that you must not give up on above all else. I struggled with severe anxiety and depression when I was in middle school, and the help and support from my family and a therapist saved my life. Asking for help is the first step. You are more precious to this world than you can know.” — Lily Rhinehart
  22. “You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” — Dan Millman
  23. “The best way out is always to pass.” — Robert Frost
  24. “Don’t believe everything you think.” — unknown
  25. “It is our darkest moments where we have to focus to see the light.” — Aristotle
  26. “I was bent but not broken. I am injured but not out of shape. I am sad but not hopeless. I am tired but not weak. I am angry but not offended. I’m depressed, but I’m not giving up.” — unknown
  27. “Take a shower, wash the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes. Pay attention to the silence. Be aware of your heart. It still beats. He’s still fighting. After all, you made it. You made it another day. And you can make another one. You’re doing pretty well.” — Charlotte Eriksson
  28. “It’s okay to be depressed, it’s okay to have anxiety and adjustment disorder. We need to improve speaking. We all have mental health just as we have physical health.” — Prince Harry
  29. “The moment the caterpillar thought the world was ending, it turned into a butterfly.” — Anonymous proverb
  30. “If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving no matter what.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
  31. “Happiness can be found even in the darkest times, if only one remembers to turn on the light.” — Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban from Albus Dumbledore
  32. “I cannot change the direction of the wind, but I can always adjust my sails to reach my destination.” -Jimmy Dean
  33. “Sometimes you get out of bed in the morning and you think I’m not going to make it, but you smile inside — you remember all the times you felt that way.” — Charles Bukowski
  34. “Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.” — Pastor Rick Warren
  35. “Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unprotected thoughts.” — Buddha
  36. “It’s not the bruises on the body that hurt. The wounds of the heart and the wounds of the mind.” — Ayse Mirza
  37. “Mental health… is a process, not a destination. It’s not about where you’re going, it’s about how you drive.” — Noam Shpancer
  38. “What I love about therapy is that they tell you what your blind spots are. While this is uncomfortable and painful, it gives you something to work on.” — Pink
  39. “Anyone can be affected by [mental illness], despite their level of success or their place in the food chain. In fact, since about 20% of American adults have suffered from some form of mental illness in their lifetime, there’s a good chance you know someone who struggles with it. So why aren’t we talking about that?” — Kristen Bell
  40. “A little crack doesn’t mean you’re broken, it means you’ve been put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.” — Linda Poindexter
  41. “Mental health is just as important as physical health and deserves the same quality of support.” — Kate Middleton
  42. “You are not the disease. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Being yourself is part of the battle.” — Julian Seifter
  43. “Everything that is human can be mentioned and everything that can be mentioned can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.” — Fred Rogers
  44. “The bravest thing I did was move on with my life when I wanted to die.” -Juliette Lewis
  45. “What sanity needs is more sunshine, more intimacy, and more shameless conversation.” — Glenn Kappa
  46. “Deep breathing is the love language of our nervous system.” — Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy
  47. “No struggle, no progress.” -Frederick Douglas

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