47 Quotes by 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.

It is, of course, necessary to have rules and procedures if we wish to accomplish large and complex tasks, but the question of whether or not it is worth the cost must be perennially re-examined. (117)

Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth.

But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else. Slowly, she learned that each of us grown-ups has as much and as little power as the other, and that we had best learn to take care of ourselves.(83)

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 to remain the same and to get the therapist to make him feel better. (4)

You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences.

I’ve never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared.

The only times that we can have what we long for are those moments when we stop grasping for it. At such times, all things are possible: “to a mind that is ‘still’ the whole universe surrenders”.

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.