#psychology

A one dollar bill, though it weighs less than 99 pennies, is psychologically heavier. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#psychology

Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference. ↗

— Thomas Harris

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Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us. ↗

— C.G. Jung

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Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

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There is nothing so whole as a broken heart. ↗

— Menachem Mendel

#spiritual #psychology

He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#psychology #psychology

Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the Think buttons. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#sociology #psychology

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others... ↗

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

#empathy #empathy-diversity #empathy-psychology #prejudice #racism

By embracing your subconscious, you gain a different way of seeing and experiencing—an expanded perception that opens a doorway, not only to lucid dreams, but also to the mythic dimension. As in lucid dreams, you see yourself or others with new eyes; your senses awaken and grasp an experience more fully than ever before; suddenly, you find your ears are open to hear with a deeper understanding. ↗

— Jenny Davidow

#lucid-dreams #psychology #spirituality #dreams