Top 200 Psychology Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.”

— C.G. Jung

102. “Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

103. “To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.”

— C.G. Jung

104. “Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.”

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

105. “We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.”

— Shawn Achor

106. “Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent.”

— C.G. Jung

107. “What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

108. “The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”

— William James

109. “Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it’s the thing that’s really preventing us from taking flight.”

— Brené Brown

110. “Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

111. “Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul.”

— C.G. Jung

112. “No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.”

— Carol S. Dweck

113. “Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”

— Erich Fromm

114. “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”

— C.G. Jung

115. “Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.”

— C.G. Jung

116. “Religion is a universal obsessional neurosis.”

— Sigmund Freud

117. “It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.”

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

118. “The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.”

— C.G. Jung

119. “In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

120. “Most people keep waiting on happiness, putting off happiness until they’re successful or until they achieve some goal, which means we limit both happiness and success. That formula doesn’t work.”

— Shawn Achor

121. “How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also, if I am to be whole.”

— C.G. Jung

122. “There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.”

— Albert Ellis

123. “If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.”

— Brené Brown

124. “Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.”

— Brené Brown

125. “Man’s inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.”

— Carl R. Rogers

126. “Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.”

— Peter A. Levine

127. “Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

128. “It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.”

— Gabor Maté

129. “There is one aspect of happiness that’s been well studied, and it’s the notion of flow. Ask yourselves, when for you does time stop? When are you truly at home, wanting to be no place else?”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

130. “People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.”

— Marsha M. Linehan

131. “Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’”

— Erich Fromm

132. “Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experience.”

— Brené Brown

133. “The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

134. “Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

135. “Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

136. “It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail.”

— C.G. Jung

137. “Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

138. “Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.”

— William James

139. “There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind – separate from the conscious mind – that is constantly at work molding our thoughts, feelings, and actions.”

— Sigmund Freud

140. “The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

141. “The self is our life’s goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.”

— C.G. Jung

142. “In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

143. “You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!”

— Viktor E. Frankl

144. “In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?”

— Carl R. Rogers

145. “The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?”

— C.G. Jung

146. “The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.”

— Abraham Maslow

147. “This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.”

— C.G. Jung

148. “We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.”

— Daniel Kahneman

149. “For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

150. “I would rather be whole than good.”

— C.G. Jung