160 Quotes by Lori Gottlieb

So many of our destructive behaviors take root in an emotional void, an emptiness that calls out for something to fill it.

What makes night within us may leave stars. – Victor Hugo.

Yalom wrote in Existential Psychotherapy, our awareness of death helps us live more fully – and with less, not more, anxiety.

Modern man thinks he loses something – time – when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it.” Fromm was right;.

Just because she sends you guilt doesn’t mean you have to accept delivery.

Well you seem like you’re enjoying the experience of suffering, so I thought I’d help you out with that... There’s a difference between pain and suffering,′ Wendell says, ‘You’re going to have to feel pain- everyone feels pain at times- but you don’t have to suffer so much. You’re not choosing the pain, but you’re choosing the suffering.

What parents needed, I believed, wasn’t another book about how they had to calm down and take a break. What they needed was an actual break from the deluge of parenting books.

You want to mute the pain? You’ll also mute the joy.

How long do you think the sentence for this crime should be? A year? Five? Ten?′ Many of us torture ourselves over our mistakes for decades, even after we’ve genuinely attempted to make amends. How reasonable is that sentence?