Therapeutic Quotes

• I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.

  Warwick Davis

  Hate, Burning, Shirts

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• I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

  Carrie Fisher

  Falling In Love, Book, Reading

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2011.

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• Inner Forgiveness is therapeutic. If you do not Forgive you cannot be Internally Healed. Forgiving heals the Soul.

  Choa Kok Sui

  Soul, Forgiving, Heal

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• When you are free of your self in your heart, your labouring within your self is therapeutic to your self. It is a constant blend into your self of what your own Being is. The movement of love, enjoying being at work in the self. The movement of love, enjoying making a change in your self. The enjoyment of application.

  John de Ruiter

  Heart, Self, Movement

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• There aren't many things as therapeutic as smiles and laughter. Whenever you look at things in a lighter vein, it shows that your heart is in the right place.

  Douglas Pagels

  Laughter, Attitude, Heart

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• Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Writing, Editing, Issues

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Oct 25, 2015

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• Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.

  Philip Rieff

  Past, Men, Weight

  Philip Rieff (1979). “Freud: The Mind of the Moralist”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

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• Every small problem most likely stems from the same root as large problems, and so there is no need to always go deep. One can use anything for the therapeutic process and/if this link is made.

  Pema Chodron

  Small Problems, Roots, Needs

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• Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Psychology, Understanding, Technique

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• The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  May, Helping, Accepted

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• One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

  Kenneth Koch

  Attitude, Fall, Maturity

  Kenneth Koch (1978). “I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home”, Random House Incorporated

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• I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is given fingerpaints.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Mind, Way

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• I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.

  Dave Grohl

  Writing, Thinking, Singing

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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• Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene... For me it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.

  Michael De Luca

  People, Laughing, Littles

  "Producer Michael De Luca Says His Heart Is With the Scrappy Independents". Interview with Scott Timberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 15, 2011.

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• Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.

  Hal Rothman

  Running, Self, Ethos

  Hal Rothman (2015). “Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century”, p.12, Routledge

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• Christianity in our country is a lot like what the Ducksters profess. No longer doctrinaire or demanding, the mishmash of pop-religion practiced in churches across America is an extension of the therapeutic culture: festooned with feelings, mostly misdirected. Untempered by intelligent interpretation of scripture... American pop-theology: light on doctrine, heavy on hellfire and damnation.

  Ilana Mercer

  Country, Intelligent, Light

  "Duck Dynasty: A Decoy For Dummies". American Daily Herald, December 27, 2013.

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• LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to deep realms of the psyche that have not yet been discovered and acknowledged by mainstream psychology and psychiatry. They also reveal new possibilities and mechanisms of therapeutic change and personality transformation.

  Stanislav Grof

  Powerful, Unique, Personality

  "LSD Psychotherapy". Book by Stanislav Grof, 1980.

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• There's something therapeutic about nudity ... Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same.

  Kevin Bacon

  Levi's, Gucci, Nudity

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• Beauty Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic. If, after several Applications, you do not find Relief, consult your family physician.

  Pamela Anderson

  Beauty, Track, Physicians

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• I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Song, Writing, Answers

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• Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.

  Bill Vaughan

  Distance, Mean, Reality

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• I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.

  Jill Hennessy

  Writing, Gone, Stuff

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• Sometimes I laugh with my parents, and sometimes I yell at them, and both are therapeutic.

  Brie Larson

  Laughing, Parent, Sometimes

  "Brie Larson Interview UNITED STATES OF TARA and SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. March 23, 2010.

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• Running is my solo time; working my muscles outside in fresh air is therapeutic.

  Nina Dobrev

  Running, Air, Solo

  "Nina Dobrev's Secrets to Getting Sexy" by Erin Bried, www.self.com. November 15, 2012.

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• It’s a nice challenge to escape your reality. I think that’s why actors do what we do. We like to play other people. It’s therapeutic.

  Stella Maeve

  Nice, Reality, Thinking

  "Stella Maeve On 'Golden Boy' and Being Named After Stella Adler". Interview with Shelley Brown, www.backstage.com. February 21, 2013.

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