Therapy Quotes - Page 2

• Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

  Maimonides

  Food, Healing, Health

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• I was dubious about the effects of the Alexander Technique when I first went in to experience it, but I found out almost immediately that the benefits were total - both physically and mentally - and, happily, have also been long-lasting.

  Joanne Woodward

  Healing, Effectiveness, Long

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• I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

  Andrew Weil

  Health, Simple, Years

  "U.S. manages disease, not health" by Andrew Weil, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2013.

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• In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill.

  Robert Lawson Shaw

  Music, Luxury, Focus

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• The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

  Paul Newman

  Good Night, Healing, Sleep

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• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

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• After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.'

  Ronnie Shakes

  Funny, Eye, Years

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• My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.

  Pamela Anderson

  Relaxation, Junk, Upholstery

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• Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

  Karl Kraus

  Mental Illness, Regard, Psychoanalysis

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• After ten years in therapy, my psychologist told me something very touching, he said, “no hablo ingles.”

  Dennis Wolfberg

  Years, Touching, Psychologist

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• If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it's the same for your heart.

  Toni Braxton

  Heart, Knees, Break

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

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• When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

  Audre Lorde

  Teaching, Matter, Reach Out

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.14, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.

  Carrie Fisher

  Mom, Mental Illness, Breakdown

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• Theres a stigma on the word therapy. People relate it to big problems. Thats something we have to change. Going to therapy can be very healthy. It can change the way you see things and treat others.

  Juan Pablo Galavis

  People, Healthy, Way

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• If a stick is floating down a river and gets stuck, it doesn't need years of therapy. It just needs a little nudge and then it will get back into the flow of the river.

  Michael Neill

  Rivers, Years, Flow

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• I've had a pretty crazy life. It's colorful ... reliving some of those closets that I had shut, locked and thrown away the key intentionally because it was painful to revisit a lot of those places - especially the loss of my buddy Robbie Tooley, the divorce of my parents, some of the things I went through as a kid, a lot of that stuff was locked up for a reason - it was painful. But at the same time, there was some therapy in revisiting some of those spots.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Crazy, Kids, Divorce

  "A Minute With: Billy Ray Cyrus on Miley and his "Hillbilly Heart". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. April 17, 2013.

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• I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a nicer person. I love therapy - it's brilliant.

  Julia Sawalha

  Discovery, Self, Trying

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• Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

  Jane Fonda

  Writing, Thinking, Use

  "Jane Fonda, Fitness Guru, Reveals What Inspires Her In Origin Magazine Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Order, Bipolar

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• Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.

  Harvey Fierstein

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

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• All of my friends were seeing a therapist, and I thought something was wrong with me that I didn't see a therapist. So I went to a therapist to find out why I wasn't seeing a therapist. And it turns out I'm very screwed up. Thank God I found a therapist to tell me for $125 an hour.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Thank God, Hours, Therapists

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• I don't feel like myself unless I run. It's how I deal with sadness and happiness. I need it. It's like therapy.

  Kara Goucher

  Running, Sadness, Needs

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• That which doesn’t kill us just requires a few centuries of therapy. (Caleb) Yeah, and usually a lot of Tylenol. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Tylenol, Century, Yeah

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• Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

  Gordon Allport

  Love And Marriage, And Love, Given

  Gordon Willard Allport (1955). “Becoming; Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality”, p.33, Yale University Press

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• Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.

  Dean Karnazes

  Sports, Running, Office

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