Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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[O]ne of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique, simple existent self, [which is] in some strange fashion, the patient's, or the subject person's, private property.

Harry Stack Sullivan's Popular Quotes

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

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All of us are much more human than otherwise

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Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

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There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

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As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

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The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

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If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

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When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that…

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If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.

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