Favorite Quotes of a San Diego Marriage Counselor (http://www.Cunninghamtherapy.com)
"There is nothing in schizophrenia that is not also present in all of us. Schizophrenia is made up of the essence of human experience many times distilled. With our incapacity to look at ourselves, we have much to learn about ourselves from studying the least mature of us."
Murray Bowen, M.D.
"Diagnosis is not destiny."
Gerald Weissmann, M.D., They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus
"I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Benjamin Franklin
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."
Seneca
"We are continuously faced by great opportunities brilliantly
disguised as insoluble problems."
Lee Iacocca
"Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like:
What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What
am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing
it?"
Charles Connolly
"Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask
better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."
Anthony Robbins
"We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same."
Anne Frank
"Remember, no one can make you feel
inferior without your consent."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your thinking."
Susan Taylor
"Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions."
Earl Gray Stevens
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
John Wooden
"To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we
will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against."
Christina Baldwin
"I feel that in this field (psychotherapy) it (scientific research) should
not be our only tool. It's like a Procrustean bed, which leaves out so
much of what transpires in psychotherapy. The effort of science is to
study facts, but psychotherapy deals in meanings."
Jerome Frank
"The wider paradigm of relationships and family transcends old
group definitions. The discovery of our connections to all other
men, women, and children joins us to another family. Indeed,
seeing ourselves as a planetary family struggling to solve its
problems, rather than as assorted people and nations assessing
blame or exporting solutions, could be the ultimate shift in
perspective."
Marilyn Ferguson
"Obstacles are necessary for success... victory comes only
after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each
struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths,
your courage and your endurance, your ability and your
confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms
forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an
opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid
them, and you throw away your future."
Og Mandino ( Motivational Author & Speaker)
"You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him
to find it within himself."
Galileo
"Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow."
Kahlil Gibrán (The Prophet)
"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the
attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way
your mind looks at what happens."
John Homer Miller
"I don't know the key to Success. But the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
Bill Cosby
"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."
John Ruskin
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to
hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who
think differently."
Friedrich Nietzche
"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing."
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
"You gain strength, experience and confidence by every
experience where you really stop to look fear in the face."
You must do the thing you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Wisdom comes by disillusionment."
George Santayana
"The best years of your life are the ones in which you
decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on
your mother, the ecology or the president. You realize that
you control your own destiny."
Albert Ellis
"Faith is a passionate intuition."
William Wordsworth
"Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself."
Harvey Fierstein
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
Anais Ninn
"What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowman. That is
the whole Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and study."
Rabbi Hillel
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have,
and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be
careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
Carl Sandburg
"Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he who finds himself, looses his
misery."
Mathew Arnold
"Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he
potentially is."
Erich Fromm
"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
Woody Allen
"The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination."
Emily Dickinson
"Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes.
Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds
rise above them."
Washington Irving
"Life is 10% of what happens to you, and 90% of how you respond to it."
Charles Swindoll
"Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love."
Eric Fromm
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
Carl Gustav Jung
"Psychotherapy must remain an obstinate attempt of two
people to recover the wholeness of being human through the
relationship between them." R.D. Laing
"Two strong "I's" make more likely a stable "we." Barbara Cunningham
"The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour."
Unknown
"A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an
imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences."
Dave Meurer
"We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases."
Goethe
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
Langston Hughes
"What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but
rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of
him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any
cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be
fulfilled by him."
Victor Frankel
"If you're going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill
"One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of
the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is
the moment when the real message of transformation is
going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light."
Joseph Campbell
"No one ever became great by imitation" Samuel Johnson
"To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage."
Henri Matisse
"In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing." Steve Jobs
"If you and I agree all the time, then one of us is redundant."
Charles Wang
"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
Dr. Seuss.
"If there is no struggle there is no progress."
Fredrick Douglas
"We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us."
Virginia Satir.
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong
It is right it should be so;
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know,
Thro' the world we safely go.
Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.
William Blake
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