Constructive Psychology Quotes

#1. He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. Drinking water is like washing out your insides. The water will cleanse the system, fill you up, decrease your caloric load and improve the function of all your tissues.

Kevin R. Stone

#3. I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.

Melanie Lynskey

#4. I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.

Henry Reed

#5. I regard cats as one of the great joys in the world. I see them as a gift of highest order.

Trisha McCagh

#6. Hope had stolen into his life just as he was growing comfortable with despair.

David Leavitt

#7. Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.

Agnes Macphail

#8. Do not allow yourself to be a thermometer which gauges the temperature, rather be a thermostat which changes your environment.

Asa Don Brown

#9. If we sound like a couple of callous assholes, it's because that's how we were raised.

Jonathan Tropper

#10. Silence has always been my default mode - my best defense against the rest of the world.

Matthew Quick

#11. I paint the darkness and the silence,
You see them as stars and poetry.

Jenim Dibie

#12. I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#13. What I remember the most about my childhood is constant fear and "good food." I don't want to get into the greasy, buttery, deep-fried, fatty, sugary, meaty, barbecued details here, but with no knowledge of healthy lifestyles or positive psychology, time took its toll on me.

Bryant H. McGill

#14. [Fantasy] is a constructive aspect of the child's experimental exploration of reality, or his progressive relating of himself to reality, of his trial-and-error attempts to solve his reality problems.

Lauretta Bender

#15. I can't imagine that I'm supposed to get over it , like hopping a low stone wall; if Thursday was a barrier of some kind, it was made of razor wire, which I did not bound over but thrash through, leaving me in flayed pieces and on the other side of something only in a temporal sense.

Lionel Shriver

#16. I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said, 'Richard, calm down.'

Richard Serra

#17. No one really knows why humans do what they do.

David K. Reynolds