67 quotes found
“If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here.”
“One must always forgive another's passion.”
“Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing?”
“This is one of the difficulties and pleasures of studying the Inklings; Christians all, they offer, along with the expected 20th-century psychological explanations for behavior, unexpected spiritua...”
“Will therapy make you feel any better? Not if it's working.”
“There is an inverse relationship between control and trust. Trust is more of a two-way exchange than most people, especially those in power, realize. Leaders in government, news media, universities...”
“Treat this crisis as practice for the next crisis.”
“You cannot contain evil by shaming it, or making people feel guilty, but only by revealing it toward it is, and then seeing the good as better.”
“In the reflected gaze of his (her husband's) steady admiration, she saw the face of the girl he had fallen in love with.”
“most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.”
“When a person in your life continuously displays to you they do not care, there comes a point where you may want to start believing them.”
“However, if you do not believe your clients, they may sense your doubt and never fully trust you. As Bruce Goderez (1986), director of a PTSD inpatient unit says, "It is important for the clinician...”
“Paul didn't just see emotions. He saw the need they represented.”
“I could help you, I said. Counseling, drugs, a religious advisor, a girlfriend.”
“We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We need to stop aski...”
“I found that the same softness which once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories.”
“A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.”
“Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them.”
“Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told.”
“One last “happy” thought: Your marriage will end either in death or divorce. (Think about it!) So well before the “I do’s” (and the eventual tears), why not give both of yourselves a chance for a m...”
