Top 200 Psychology Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Self-compassion is key because when we’re able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we’re more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.”

— Brené Brown

52. “Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.”

— Sigmund Freud

53. “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

— C.G. Jung

54. “Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.”

— Marsha M. Linehan

55. “Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist.”

— Richard Davidson

56. “Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.”

— C.G. Jung

57. “One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”

— Abraham Maslow

58. “Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.”

— Brené Brown

59. “Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.”

— Brené Brown

60. “In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”

— C.G. Jung

61. “If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can’t survive.”

— Brené Brown

62. “We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”

— C.G. Jung

63. “What you are to be, you are now becoming.”

— Carl R. Rogers

64. “Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.”

— C.G. Jung

65. “We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.”

— Carl R. Rogers

66. “The happiest people spend much time in a state of flow – the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.”

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

67. “The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you.”

— C.G. Jung

68. “In every adult there lurks a child – an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.”

— C.G. Jung

69. “If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”

— Abraham Maslow

70. “Not why the addiction, but why the pain.”

— Gabor Maté

71. “There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”

— C.G. Jung

72. “The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.”

— Bruce D. Perry

73. “Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.”

— C.G. Jung

74. “If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.”

— Brené Brown

75. “In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen, really seen.”

— Brené Brown

76. “In each of us there is another whom we do not know.”

— C.G. Jung

77. “Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

78. “Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

79. “Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”

— Brené Brown

80. “Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

81. “The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.”

— C.G. Jung

82. “Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”

— Sigmund Freud

83. “That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.”

— C.G. Jung

84. “Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.”

— Carl R. Rogers

85. “Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

86. “The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”

— Carl R. Rogers

87. “Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

88. “Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

89. “The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.”

— Bessel van der Kolk

90. “Self-compassion is a way of emotionally recharging our batteries. Rather than becoming drained by helping others, self-compassion allows us to fill up our internal reserves, so that we have more to give to those who need us.”

— Kristin Neff

91. “Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”

— C.G. Jung

92. “To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.”

— Abraham Maslow

93. “The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”

— C.G. Jung

94. “The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

95. “What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.”

— Jean Piaget

96. “We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning; for what in the morning was true will in evening become a lie.”

— C.G. Jung

97. “Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.”

— C.G. Jung

98. “Where id was, there ego shall be.”

— Sigmund Freud

99. “There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.”

— Oliver Sacks

100. “The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”

— Sigmund Freud