Human Psychology

1201 - 1210

1201. "Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all."

-Erik Erikson

1202. Once you start making the effort to 'wake yourself up'that is, be more mindful in your activities you suddenly start appreciating life a lot more.

-Robert Biswas-Diener

1203. We are what we are because we have been what we have been, and what is needed for solving the problems of human life and motives is not moral estimates but more knowledge.

-Sigmund Freud

1204. If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.

-Jean Piaget

1205. If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

-Abraham Maslow

1206. Everything can be taken from a man, but the last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitudes in any given set of circumstances.

-Viktor Frankl

1207. We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

-B.F. Skinner

1208. Probably the biggest insight... is that happiness is not just a place, but also a process. Happiness is an ongoing process of fresh challenges, and it takes the right attitudes and activities to continue to be happy.

-Ed Diener

1209. It is not primarily our physical selves that limit us but rather our mindset about our physical limits.

-Ellen J. Langer

1210. Gradually you fall in love with someone you spend a lot of time with, like a fellow student or a co-worker. This is a phenomenon known as the exposure effect. The exposure effect is a psychological phenomenon whereby people tend to become attracted to each other the more time they spend together.