Therapy Quotes

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  Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Depression, Fear

  New York Times, January 8, 1981.

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• Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.

  Caroline Rhea

  Inspirational, Talking, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

  Tim Burton

  Movie, Gambling, Actors

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• The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

  Carl Rogers

  Change, Appreciation, Hypnosis

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• Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Self, Common, Discovering

  Dorothy Gilman (1967). “Uncertain Voyage”

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• Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.

  Anne Lamott

  Good Friend, Doe, Helping

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.124, Penguin

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• You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken blessed.

  James Hillman

  Blessed, Blessing, Broken

  James Hillman (1997). “Dream Animals”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• Music is an art that goes well beyond science. Proof can be found in the huge amount of studies that have been carried out throughout the world based on music-therapy and the important results achieved.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Art, Important, World

  "Opera Star Andrea Bocelli: Faith Is the Only Way Forward". Interview with Mark Hensch, www.christianpost.com. November 28, 2011.

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• People do not come into therapy to change their past but their future.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Past, People

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• Problem talk creates problems, Solution talk creates solutions.

  Steve de Shazer

  Talking, Focus, Psychology

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• Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Funny, Husband, Kids

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• "Objective" means that, in a confrontation with the evidence, you would be willing to change your own mind.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Pain, Mean, Mind

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• Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.

  Craig Venter

  Pain, Drug, Negative

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• The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

  James Hollis

  Inspirational, Moving, Opposites

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• Laying on the floor and listening to music might be all the therapy that you need.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Listening, Needs, Might

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• It's not too difficult to get the skeletons out of the closet with people, but to get the gold out is a different matter. That is therapy. Psychology is the Art of finding the gold of the spirit.

  Robert Johnson

  Art, Skeletons, People

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• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  Abraham Maslow

  May, Peak Experiences, Values

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• I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Thinking, Quality, Want

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• Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

  Beth Orton

  Hurt, Kids, Nightmare

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

  Angelina Jolie

  Needs, Roles

  "Profile: Angelina Jolie" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2003.

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• When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.

  Courteney Cox

  Years, Together, Engagement

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• I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

  Carl Rogers

  Education, Teacher, Believe

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Smile, it's free therapy.

  Douglas Horton

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.

  Norma McCorvey

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

  Richard Lewis

  Funny, Humorous, Intelligence

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