Psychology-related quotes, covering topics like behavior, the mind, emotions, cognition, mental health, self-awareness, and more. These quotes come from psychologists, philosophers, writers, and thinkers who’ve influenced the field:

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These quotes come from psychologists, philosophers, writers, and thinkers who’ve influenced the field:

On Human Behavior & Mind:

1. "The mind is everything. What you think you become." – Buddha

2. "Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

3. "Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems." – Epictetus

4. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." – Aristotle

5. "What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." – Plutarch

6. "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes." – William James

7. "It is not primarily our physical selves that limit us but rather our mindset about our physical limits." – Ellen Langer

8. "The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." – Carl Rogers

9. "The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water." – Sigmund Freud

10. "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." – Carl Jung

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On Emotions:

11. "Feelings are just visitors. Let them come and go." – Mooji

12. "We are not our emotions. We can observe them without being consumed by them." – Unknown

13. "Don't let your emotions make your decisions." – Joyce Meyer

14. "Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it." – Baruch Spinoza

15. "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." – Dalai Lama

16. "The best way out is always through." – Robert Frost

17. "What you resist, persists." – Carl Jung

18. "There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music." – George Eliot

19. "Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf." – Jonatan Mårtensson

20. "You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." – Jon Kabat-Zinn

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On Mental Health & Healing:

21. "Mental health is not a destination, but a process." – Noam Shpancer

22. "You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you." – Dan Millman

23. "Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step." – Mariska Hargitay

24. "It’s okay to not be okay." – Unknown

25. "There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t." – John Green

26. "The wound is the place where the light enters you." – Rumi

27. "Be patient with yourself. Nothing in nature blooms all year." – Unknown

28. "Recovery is not one and done. It is a lifelong journey that takes place one day, one step at a time." – Unknown

29. "You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell." – Julian Seifter

30. "Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise." – Victor Hugo

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On Self-Awareness & Identity:

31. "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." – Aristotle

32. "To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person." – Bruce Lee

33. "Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time." – M. Scott Peck

34. "The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." – Carl Jung

35. "Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." – Carl Jung

36. "The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely." – Carl Jung

37. "You are not what happened to you. You are what you choose to become." – Carl Jung

38. "Our true self is hidden under the roles we play." – Unknown

39. "The unexamined life is not worth living." – Socrates

40. "Self-reflection is the school of wisdom." – Baltasar Gracián

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On Motivation & Growth:

41. "In any given moment, we have two options: step forward into growth or back into safety." – Abraham Maslow

42. "The only journey is the one within." – Rainer Maria Rilke

43. "It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." – Epictetus

44. "Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end." – Robin Sharma

45. "Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness." – Jean Vanier

46. "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." – William James

47. "Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient." – Steve Maraboli

48. "Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." – Joshua J. Marine

49. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

50. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill