Psychological Quotes - Page 27

• True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Clever, Grace

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Contemplative Prayer”, p.70, Image

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• Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all hunger, loneliness and misery, not because of some great psychological or emotional capacity, but because God's heart has become one with ours.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Pain, War

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.36, HarperCollins

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• If you have a good spine, the gods will chase you. Nobody has psychological or emotional problems, everyone has a bad spine.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Emotional, Problem, Spine

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• Most horror films fail to scare me. I think 'The Ring' plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper.

  Martin Henderson

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Black and White is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. My purpose in taking photographs over the past forty years has ultimately been about defining myself. It has been fundamentally a psychological and existential journey.

  Roger Ballen

  Black And White, Past, Journey

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• Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: 'Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to live for! I must stop, but I cannot! You must help me!'...One feels that something more than human power is needed to produce the essential psychic change. Though the aggregate of recoveries resulting from psychiatric effort is considerable, we physicians must admit we have made little impression upon the problem as a whole. Many types do not respond to the ordinary psychological approach.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Recovery, Men, Psychics

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• Our goals should stretch us bit by bit. So often when we think we have encountered a ceiling, it is really a psychological or experiential barrier that we have built ourselves. We built it and we can remove it.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Thinking, Generosity, Goal

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• Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Religion, Useless

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• A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

  Dieter Rams

  Design, Criteria, Used

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• Our situation is more psychological than people will admit.
  Black kids kill Black kids for the same reason cops do.
  They see no value.

  David Banner

  Kids, People, Black

  FaceBook post by David Banner from Aug 10, 2014

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• But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flower, Saws, Firsts

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• When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless... and we understand the psychological genocide that they have already inflicted upon their own people.

  John Trudell

  White, America, People

  "The Indigenous Voice: Visions and Realities (Volume 2)". Book edited by Roger Moody, 1988.

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• For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations.

  Ernst Zundel

  Country, Running, War

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• When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that.

  George Thorogood

  Thinking, Rocks, People

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• Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.

  Honore de Balzac

  Philosophical, Journey, Men

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• There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.

  Alan Thicke

  Humor, Thinking, Needs

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• Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Psychological Needs, President, Presidency

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• It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.

  Albert Einstein

  Military, Desire, Essentials

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• I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

  Brian Aldiss

  Believe, Mind, May

  "Brian Aldiss : Young Turk to Grand Master". Locus Magazine, www.locusmag.com. August 2000.

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• How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. It is a psychological truth that the physical acts of reverence and devotion make one feel devout. The courteous gesture increases one's respect for others. To act lovingly is to begin to feel loving, and certainly to act joyfully brings joy to others which in turn makes one feel joyful. I believe we are called to the duty of delight.

  Dorothy Day

  Kindness, Believe, Joy

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• When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.

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  Ram Dass

  Reflection, Looks, Want

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• Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

  Karl Abraham

  Difficult Questions, Long, Choices

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.”

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• Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.

  Guy Finley

  Dark, Light, Resistance

  "Fear and the ‘Anti-Change Factor’" by Guy Finley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2012.

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• There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that may have been, it was a good deal less na?ve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Book, Mean, Average

  1960 'Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction'. Paper read at Wesleyan College, Fall.

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• It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

  Northrop Frye

  Block, Emotional, Thinking

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.83, Princeton University Press

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