409 Quotes About Therapy

I’ll never ask you to pity him,’ she said. ‘Only to understand him.’We sat as we often did, in deadlock, each of us waiting for the other person to speak.‘I ask you,’ she said, ‘because I think that it might help you.

Writing started out as a kind of therapy for me. I was bullied mercilessly in high school, and I lived vicariously through Kitty. She was everything I wanted to be; strong, smart, witty, and above all else, she didn't care what other people thought about her. But after a while, she started to take on a personality of her own, and I was suddenly more interested in her story than I was in mine.

What makes a family is neither the absence of tragedy nor the ability to hide from misfortune, but the courage to overcome it and, from that broken past, write a new beginning.

Genom våra tankar och föreställningar konstruerar vi den inre och yttre världen. Vår unika värld beror i hög grad på de ögon som ser, och — icke att förglömma — den själ som gömmer sig bakom de ögon som ser.

Jesus commanded, 'Take up your cross and follow me.' That doesn't accord well with an evening spent on the therapist's couch.Americans do not ask for help--physically or psychologically--because the more we suffer, the more we are convinced we're doing the right thing. When our words and actions are hated, we think we must be speaking the truth. 'For thus they persecuted the prophets.

If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.

Someone's therapist knows all about you.

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.

Making room in our heart for our own pain, we make room in our heart for theirs.