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, and find someone in need and do something for him.
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… - Karl A. Menninger
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…
- Karl A. Menninger
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… - Karl A. Menninger
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…
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. - Karl A. Menninger
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. - Karl A. Menninger
Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us.
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… - Karl A. Menninger
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…
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 … - Karl A. Menninger
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 does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him. - Karl A. Menninger
One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
What's done to children, they will do to society. - Karl A. Menninger
What's done to children, they will do to society.
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. - Karl A. Menninger
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
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