Famous quotes by Psychologists

"What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting"

Virginia Satir, Psychologist

"We can learn something new, anytime we believe we can"

Virginia Satir, Psychologist

"Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending"

Virginia Satir, Psychologist

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom"

Viktor E. Frankl, Psychologist

"A human being is a deciding being"

Viktor E. Frankl, Psychologist

"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves"

Viktor E. Frankl, Psychologist

"The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances"

Viktor E. Frankl, Psychologist

"Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time"

Viktor E. Frankl, Psychologist

"Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives"

Viktor E. Frankl, Psychologist

"I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast"

Viktor E. Frankl, Psychologist

"For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general, but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment"

Viktor E. Frankl, Psychologist

"Everything can be taken from a man or a woman, but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way"

Viktor E. Frankl, Psychologist

"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, Psychologist

"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, Psychologist

"Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human"

Viktor E. Frankl, Psychologist

"Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"Man lives by imagination"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

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