32 Quotes by Stephen Grosz

When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us-we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves acting in ways we don’t understand.

I want to change, but not if it means changing.

The bigger the front, the bigger the back.

It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten.

There cannot be change without loss.

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. But if we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us- we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves acting in ways we don’t understand.

Being present builds a child’s confidence because it lets the child know that she is worth thinking about.

At one time or another, most of us have felt trapped by things we find ourselves thinking or doing, caught by our own impulses or foolish choices; ensnared in some unhappiness or fear; imprisoned by our own history. We feel unable to go forward and yet we believe that there must be a way.

The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.