Psychological Shift Quotes

As a society, when you have your mortality slapped in your face, it changes you.

I do enjoy a level of intensity that I bring when I'm the Demon, but it's a mindset that takes a couple of days to get into; it's not something I can do every day.

We're always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.

Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

And remember one fundamental law of life. If they are hostile, they have hate towards us, sooner or later they are going to fall into my trap, because hate can turn into love very easily, just as love can become hate very easily.

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

Something invisible snapped inside her.

People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed

When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology.

Because if he looked like he was unaffected by her smile, then she would not realize that, in actuality, he was in an utter panic because somewhere deep down inside he’d realized that his life had just changed forever.

It was Apollo 8 that first showed us the tiny blue marble of Earth floating in the void of space, one of the great psychological shifts in human history. From out there, we can both appreciate and begin to solve the problems of our world in ways unavailable to us otherwise.

Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight-- isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you're less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn't it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you've experienced before?

The moment we make up our minds that we are going on with this determination to exalt God overall, we step out of the worldís parade... We acquire a new viewpoint; a new and different psychology will be formed within us; a new power will begin to surprise us by its upsurgings and its outgoings.

If I am in a certain mood, and I want to feel a certain way, I will pop on a certain color of lipstick, and it makes me feel entirely different.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that he has feelings.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

A person often falls very ill in order to become someone else and then returns to health much disappointed.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.

Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.

Alas, what is terrible is not the skeletons, but the fact that I am no longer terrified by them.