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

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

- 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

Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us.

- 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…

- 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 …

- Karl A. Menninger

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

- Karl A. Menninger

What's done to children, they will do to society.

- Karl A. Menninger

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

- Karl A. Menninger