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

- Harry Stack Sullivan

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

- Harry Stack Sullivan

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

- Harry Stack Sullivan

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

- Harry Stack Sullivan

All of us are much more human than otherwise

- Harry Stack Sullivan

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

- Harry Stack Sullivan

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.

- Harry Stack Sullivan

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

- Harry Stack Sullivan

The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how he himself…

- Harry Stack Sullivan