The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise.
We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn’t an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.
We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.
Don’t start your day with broken pieces of the past. Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand new day and it’s yours.
When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.
I found out that the things that hurt us the most can become the fuel and the catalyst that propel us toward our destiny. It will either make you bitter or it will make you better.
Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.
Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.
Your silence will not protect you.
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.
While there’s life, there’s hope.
The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day.
Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as they are.
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
You are worthy of love and respect. You are beautiful, gifted, and intelligent. Don’t let the storm make you forget it.