Psychological Development Quotes

• Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

  William James

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Teaching, Development

  Maria Montessori (1978). “The Secret of Childhood”, p.28, Orient Blackswan

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• There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes on himself.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Confidence, Motivation, Men

  Nathaniel Branden (2001). “The Psychology of Self-Esteem: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Understanding that Launched a New Era in Modern Psychology”, Jossey-Bass

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• The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development.

  Carl Jung

  Development, Psychological, Natural

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• It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet.

  Jane Goodall

  Flower, Garden, Needs

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• Psychosynthesis is a method of psychological development and self realization for those who refuse to remain the slave of their own inner phantasms or of external influences, who refuse to submit passively to the play of psychological forces which is going on within them, and who are determined to become the master of their own lives.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Self, Play, Realization

  Roberto Assagioli (2000). “Psychosynthesis: a collection of basic writings”, Synthesis Center

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• Standards of beauty describe in precise terms the relationship that an individual will have to her own body. They prescribe her mobility, spontaneity, posture, gait, the uses to which she can use her body. They define precisely the dimension of her physical freedom and psychological development, intellectual possibility, and creative potential is an umbilical one.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Creative, Intellectual, Dimensions

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• The key is to remember a sex scene is a scene of dramatic action and psychological development. You need to pay attention to emotion and to a character's self-awareness or lack of self-awareness.

  K. M. Soehnlein

  Sex, Character, Keys

  Source: therumpus.net

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