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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

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

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

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

If you want to change other people, a much better way to do it is to first understand who we are, understand our moral psychology, understand that we all think we’re right.

Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions whereas negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems.

Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being.

The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

I’m afraid you can’t create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

The child’s personality is a product of slow gradual growth. His nervous system matures by stages and natural sequences. He sits before he stands; he babbles before he talks; he fabricates before he tells the truth; he draws a circle before he draws a square; he is selfish before he is altruistic; he is dependent on others before he achieves dependence on self. All of his abilities, including his morals, are subject to laws of growth. The task of child care is not to force him into a predetermined pattern but to guide his growth.

The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails to take account of them, and sooner or later they will bring about its downfall. But an authority wise enough in its statesmanship to give sufficient free play to nature – of which spirit is a part – need fear no premature decline.

How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered! After this, then, is it any longer worthwhile to rack one’s brain to find new ghosts to fear? No, indeed: All hail optimism! – upon playing Hermanis Mattison after he overlooked an unusual knight manouevre.

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn’t quite as spectacular.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves

Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.

Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would… have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.

…this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the development of an ‘informer’ psychology in great areas of our national life-neighbors spying on neighbors, workers spying on workers, business spying on businessmen-were those who would harass their fellow citizens for selfish and narrow purposes will have ample inducement to do so. These, the Federal police force an ‘informer’ psychology, are the hallmarks of the police state and landmarks in the destruction of a free society.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

Oh! This’ll impress you – I’m actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I’m a PEZ dispenser and I’m in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can’t have it all?

When I look at the world I’m pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.

A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors. . . . The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hidden—but it’s there. As we’ll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of addiction in the brain

The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a source of strength in political affairs.

Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.

I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.

With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being dipped in bronze. Each victory added another coat.

I think that moral philosophy is useful for framing questions, but terrible at answering them. I think moral psychology is booming right now, and we’re making a lot of progress on understanding how we actually work, what our moral nature is.

Winning is a great deodorant.