I remember a group therapy session when one of the patients was reluctantly turning his corner. He would accept it, he said, but he wouldn't like the idea of having to solve problems every day for the rest of his life. My co-therapist told him that it was not required that he like it. She shared her own displeasure, saying: 'I remember that when I first discovered what life was like, I was furious. I guess I'm still kind of mad sometimes.' (135)
Love is more than simply being open to experiencing the anguish of another person's suffering. It is the willingness to live with the helpless knowin… - Sheldon B. Kopp
Love is more than simply being open to experiencing the anguish of another person's suffering. It is the willingness to live with the helpless knowin…
- Sheldon B. Kopp
We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are born into a disordered world,… - Sheldon B. Kopp
We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are born into a disordered world,…
I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared - Sheldon B. Kopp
I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared
And so, it is not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he really wants is… - Sheldon B. Kopp
And so, it is not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he really wants is…
He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity. - Sheldon B. Kopp
He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.
That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter. - Sheldon B. Kopp
That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.
Often things are as bad as they seem. - Sheldon B. Kopp
Often things are as bad as they seem.
In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving. - Sheldon B. Kopp
In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel. - Sheldon B. Kopp
To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.
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