If I am transparent enough to myself, then I can become less afraid of those hidden selves that my transparency may reveal to others. If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone. It is enough that I must die alone. I am determined to let down my walls, whatever the risks, if it means that I may have whatever is there for me.
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
- 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,…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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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