#psych

I’d even had business cards made up reading, ABIGAIL COOPER, P.I. with teeny-weeny little letters underneath in parentheses spelling out PSYCHIC INTUITIVE. Most people think I’m trying to be clever. The truth is, I’m a chickenshit. ↗

— Victoria Laurie

#p-i #psychic #woard #business

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular. ↗

— Lisa Lutz

#change #philosophy #psychology #truth #wisdom

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#influence #psychology #change

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. ↗

— Byron Katie

#psychology #change

The word phobic has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing.... I hate computers. My hatred is entrenched, and I nourish it daily. I'm comofrtable with it, and no community outreach program will change my mind. ↗

— David Sedaris

#psychology #change

I'm most disturbed by the theory of rubber resilience in children; as if its much easier to bounce back with youth. I see them more like Steel. When heated, they can be bent either which way. But if it's not corrected by the time things cool down, they can be forever changed. ↗

— Zack W. Van

#bullying #children #psychology-spirituality #change

Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts ↗

— Rory Miller

#change #evolving #growing-up #personality #psychology

The capacity for growth depends on one’s ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be "solved," then no change will occur. ↗

— James Hollis

#jungian-analyst #midlife #change

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#personal-change #psychology #social-change #social-learning-theory #change

In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. KNOWING A MAN WELL NEVER LEADS TO HATE and nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. There is writing promoting social change, writing punishing injustice, writing in celebration of heroism, but always that base theme. TRY TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER! ↗

— John Steinbeck

#change