#psych

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has really been healed who did not regain his religious outlook. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#jung #psychology #religion #age

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior. ↗

— Scott Turow

#age

Prospective research looks forward in time to see how a group of individual change over time while retrospective research looks backward in time and attempts to reconstruct the conditions that led to the current situation. ↗

— Shelley E. Taylor

#time-travel #change

Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started believing they could change. Belief was the ingredient that made a reworked habit loop into a permanent behavior. ↗

— Charles Duhigg

#habit #mind #psychology #change

Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound variables. ("America: Three Audiences") ↗

— William S. Wilson

#psychology #change

When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing you look at changes. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#spirituality #change

Desperate people are dangerous people. ↗

— Bob Ritter

#assessments #dangerousness #presidents #psychological-profile #secret-service

It's not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptable to change. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#evolutionary-psychology #mindset #science #change

However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will? ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#description #emotion #observation #passion #people

For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#psychology #self #communication