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

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

I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared

- 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…

- Sheldon B. Kopp

Often things are as bad as they seem.

- Sheldon B. Kopp

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

- 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.

- Sheldon B. Kopp

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

- Sheldon B. Kopp

To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.

- Sheldon B. Kopp