22 quotes found
Psychiatrist · American
American psychiatrist
“Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.”
“Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.”
“What's done to children they will do to society.”
“Hope is the major weapon against the suicide impulse.”
“Fears are educated into us and can if we wish be educated out.”
“The very word, sin, which seems to have disappeared, was once a proud word. It was once a strong word, an ominous and serious word. But the word went away. It has almost disappeared the word, alo...”
“The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with...”
“Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.”
“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward and we want to sit in their radius. When we are listened to it creates us ma...”
“Hope is an adventure a going forward a confident search for a rewarding life.”
“It is this intangible thing love in many forms which enters into every therapeutic relationship. . . . And it is an element which binds and heals which comforts and restores which works what we...”
“Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor and vice versa.”
“The very word, “sin,” which seems to have disappeared, was once a proud word. It was once a strong word, an ominous and serious word. … But the word went away. It has almost disappeared — the word,...”
“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward and we want to sit in their radius. When we are listened to it creates us makes ...”
“It is this intangible thing love in many forms which enters into every therapeutic relationship. . . . And it is an element which binds and heals which comforts and restores which works what we hav...”
“It is a strange and dismal thing that in a world of such need, such opportunity and such variety as ours, the search for an illusory peace of mind should go so zealously pursued and defended, while...”
