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  Give a guy a girlfriend and a great job, he doesn’t need therapy.

  Larry David

  Girlfriend, Jobs, Giving

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• I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said life.

  Peter Cameron

  Thinking, Self, Said Life

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.49, Macmillan

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• If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they used to, can't imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don't fool around with it; get therapy, get help, get medication if that's right for you, or talk therapy, or something.

  Dick Cavett

  Giving, Bed, Care

  "People With Depression Commit Suicide". Big think Interview, bigthink.com.

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  I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.

  Don Rickles

  Thinking, Doctors, Rooms

  "TV's newest odd couple: Richard Lewis and Don Rickles to portray father and son in 'Daddy Dearest'". Interview with Greg Braxton, www.latimes.com. August 30, 1993.

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• My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Humor, Groups

  Joan Rivers' remarks on BBC 2 (February 23, 1990), as quoted in Elaine Bernstein Partnow "The Quotable Jewish Woman: Wisdom, Inspiration and Humor from the Mind and Heart" (p. 179), April 2004.

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• I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

  Henry Rollins

  Pain, Thinking, Feelings

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  Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.

  Macklemore

  Moving, Heart, Medicine

  Interview with Erica Rivera, www.ericarivera.net. December 10, 2011.

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• I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

  Al Yankovic

  Looks, Attention, Stuff

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.

  Trent Reznor

  Tough Times, Needed, Has Beens

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

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• Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

  Louis Nizer

  Inspirational, Educational, Reality

  Louis Nizer (2015). “My Life in Court”, p.254, Ravenio Books

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• A garden is the best alternative therapy.

  Germaine Greer

  Garden, Religion, Alternatives

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• Frank Farrelly. . .must be thought of with respect (perhaps even delight?) by his clients who have so far played the game of therapy with their therapists, but, I am afraid, also a shocking example for those therapists who, in Laing's words, 'are playing at not playing a game'.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Games, Example, Delight

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• Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.

  Robert Greene

  Life, Benefits, World

  Twitter post from Oct 27, 2015

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• The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

  Bruce D. Perry

  Love, Relationship, Change

  "The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog". Book by Bruce D. Perry, 2006.

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• A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

  Boy George

  Years, Two, Lasts

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• In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.

  Johnny Carson

  Crazy, Thinking, People

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• One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

  Anne Carson

  Pain, Quality, Principles

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• Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

  Raul Julia

  Cuban Cigars, Pay, Session

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• It is not a sudden leap from sick to well. It is a slow, strange meander from sick to mostly well. The misconception that eating disorders are a medical disease in the traditional sense is not helpful here. There is no 'cure'. A pill will not fix it, though it may help. Ditto therapy, ditto food, ditto endless support from family and friends. You fix it yourself. It is the hardest thing that I have ever done, and I found myself stronger for doing it. Much stronger.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Sick, Support, Stronger

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• We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.

  Atul Gawande

  Pain, Medicine, Intuition

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science”, p.7, Profile Books

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• There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.

  Carl Sagan

  Pain, Wonder, Injury

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.89, Ballantine Books

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• There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Thinking, People, Office

  Elizabeth Berg (2012). “Range of Motion: A Novel”, p.193, Ballantine Books

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• You do better in the gym with a trainer; you don't figure out how to cook without reading a recipe. Therapy is not something to be embarrassed about.

  Kristen Bell

  Reading, Recipes, Figures

  "Kristen Bell: Why Dax Shepard and I are in couples therapy". www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2015.

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• To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like nothing much at all. Which only goes to say that there's sex as therapy (self-therapy, that is) and there's sex as pastime.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sex, Sleep, Self

  "A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 13, 1982.

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• I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible.

  Chelsea Manning

  Support, Childhood, Transition

  "How Will the Military Handle Bradley Manning’s Request to Be ‘Chelsea’?". Article by Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. August 23, 2013.

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