Quotes & Sayings About Psychosocial Motives

The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take. — Jamie Farr

We are all powerless as children, and money looms so powerfully ... we don't grow up to claim our financial power until we look money directly in the eye, face our fears, and claim that power back. — Suze Orman

I've forgotten quite how luminous he is, like another species of human that doesn't have blood but light running through their veins. — Jandy Nelson

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents. — Jessye Norman

I believe we exist in a multiverse of universes. — Michio Kaku

Many people who come to spiritual practice are frightened by their feelings. They hope meditation will help them to transcend the messiness of the world and leave them invulnerable to difficult feelings. But this is a false transcendence, a denial of life. It is fear masquerading as wisdom. — Jack Kornfield

Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers
how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life. — John Green

The German huts, open on every side to the eye of indiscretion or jealousy, were a better safeguard of conjugal fidelity than the walls, the bolts, and the eunuchs of a persian harem. To this reason, another may be added of a more honourable nature. The Germans treated their women with esteem and confidence, consulted them on every occasion of importance, and fondly believed that in their breasts resided a sanctity and wisdom more than human. — Edward Gibbon

Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my dog: the way Webster moves, the way he holds his head. I kind of adapted it into this part unconsciously. — Calista Flockhart

I own your pleasure," I whispered into his mouth. "I'll take it if you won't give it to me. — Sylvia Day

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. — Roland Barthes

But it wasn't long before the old familiar discontent started creeping up on me. I suppose it was always there, somewhere in the background. All I've done, my whole life, is keep it temporarily at bay. — Sara Gruen

I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past. — Martin Feldstein

Good things happen to those who wait. It's the waiting that takes the longest. — Shellie Palmer

Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow,
Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow.
None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the Master:
His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster. — J.R.R. Tolkien