It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one..

Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us..

The voice of the intelligence is soft and weak, said Freud. It is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contra….

The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius..

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken..

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life..

Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out..

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 ….

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways..

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it..

We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn destructive tendencies away fro….

Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks,….

When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles….

Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life..

People repeat in adult life emotions they experience in childhood. Many of the people whom I spent the last 30 or 40 years treating at so much per mi….

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it cr….

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him..

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law..

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one..

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches..

To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it..