Occupation: Psychiatrist Birth: July 22, 1893 Death: July 18, 1990
What's done to children, they will do to society..
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….
One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him..
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 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 ….
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it..
Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us..
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….
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches..
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one..
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,….
The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius..
It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one..
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….
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….
Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken..
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 a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse..
Attitudes are much more important than facts..
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..
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..