160 Quotes by Lori Gottlieb

But unlike neurosurgeons, we gravitate toward the sensitive area, pressing delicately on it, even if it makes the patient feel uncomfortable.

Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime.

When the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it. And having the future taken away is the mother of all plot twists.

Instead, you release them in layers, moving closer and closer to the tender core: your sadness.

Follow your envy – it shows you what you want.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.

As the late psychotherapist Kohn Weakland famously said, “Before successful therapy, it’s the same damn thing over and over. After successful therapy, it’s one dame thing after another.

Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and experience something before its meaning becomes apparent.

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; people didn’t use extra time earned to relax or connect with friends or family. Instead, they tried to cram more in.