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• It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his counselor.

  John Ray

  Sheep, Advice, Foolish

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• Anger is the poorest of counselors, and revenge is suicide.

  Elizabeth Blair Lee

  Suicide, Revenge, Poorest

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• Influence others positively by being a teacher, coach, counselor, or mentor.

  Stephen G. Post

  Teacher, Mentor, Influence

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• You're looking for counselors, there are 66 in the Bible.

  Eric Ludy

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• I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high school, in between the don't-do-acid and don't-drink-and-drive films. I wish our counselors had told us, 'When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is the list of the symptoms, and don't worry—loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact—loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.

  Douglas Coupland

  Loneliness, School, Thinking

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Look, I don’t care what the Ooga-Boogas do. It sounds like they need a family counselor, not a sniper. (Steele) They’re not Ooga-Boogas, they’re Uhbukistanis. (Syd) Whatever. My personal belief is that we should leave Ooga-Booga Land to the Oomp-Loompas. Let them fight it out with the Snozzwangers, Wangdoogles, and the mean Vermicious Knids. I’d rather go peal carrots with a spoon. (Steele)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Fighting, Land

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• After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and praising your promise and future, after the years of schooling, fitting yourself into different size desks, memorizing, reciting, reporting, and performing for jury after jury of teachers, counselors, and administrators, you still feel inadequate, alone, vulnerable, and naked in a world that can be unforgiving and terribly demanding.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Teacher, Years, Voice

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• In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counselor, a dress-code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, a priest, a mother-father-brother-sister-uncle-aunt, a bookeeper, a critic, a psychologist, the last straw.

  Frank McCourt

  Mother, Brother, Uncles

  Frank McCourt (2005). “Teacher Man: A Memoir”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• If you need counsel, start with the One who is both Counselor and King - the One who is the source of both wisdom and power.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Professional marriage counselors agree that the most productive and mature way to deal with marital anger is to stomp dramatically from the room. You want to make your move before the opponent does, because the first person to stomp from the room receives valuable Argument Points that can be redeemed for exciting merchandise at the Marital Prize Redemption Center.

  Dave Barry

  Moving, Funny Marriage, Doe

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.208, Crown Archetype

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• Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend. It could be you. You never know when a little love, a little support will plant a small seed of hope.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Teacher, Children, Believe

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• Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful; they are prudent; they are powerful; Let us only follow them, let us remain close to them, and in the protection of the God of heaven let us abide.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Powerful, Father, Angel

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• Every year, once a year, in Maryland, I go for a week and overnight camp with about 50 to 60 kids with muscular dystrophy, all ages, seven to 21. And it is really fun. I have some great friends there and wonderful counselors.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Fun, Kids, Years

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• Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.

  Warren Farrell

  Divorce, Boxing, Legal System

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• Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.

  William Glasser

  Acceptance, Quality, World

  Myrtle Beach Conference on Reality Therapy, March 28, 2008.

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• Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness;-this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Marriage, Struggle, Inspiration

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.

  Robert Higgs

  Government, Historical, Despair

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• Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

  Anatole France

  Life, Two, Inspire

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• I hate when counselors and teachers blame everything on low self-esteem in teens. Some of us actually have self-esteem, believe it or not. And when we make mistakes, it's not because of a defect in our psyche. We screw up just because.

  Niki Burnham

  Teacher, Hate, Mistake

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• And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. You might want to keep that in mind. [Thorn]

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Wall, Mind, Want

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.173, Macmillan

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• Dierdre the counselor must not have had much of a life, because she scheduled our next appointment on a Sunday. I wasn't so thrilled about it, seeing as it wasn't just my day off-it was also the day my friends had off. Orders were orders, however, so I grudgingly showed up.

  Richelle Mead

  Sunday, Order, Days Off

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.167, Penguin

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• So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.

  Libba Bray

  Drug, Feelings, Needs

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• Wow,” says Peter, “when your guidance counselor tells you to die, you really have problems.

  Adam Selzer

  Wow, Problem, Guidance

  Adam Selzer (2010). “I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It”, p.120, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Let me get this straight," I say. "You're practically ordering me to die. What kind of guidance counselor are you?

  Adam Selzer

  Kind, Guidance, Let Me

  Adam Selzer (2010). “I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It”, p.83, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.

  Starhawk

  Wise, Political, Witch

  "The Burning Times". 1990.

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