Therapeutic Quotes

• I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.

  Warwick Davis

  Hate, Burning, Shirts

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• I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

  Carrie Fisher

  Falling In Love, Book, Reading

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2011.

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• Inner Forgiveness is therapeutic. If you do not Forgive you cannot be Internally Healed. Forgiving heals the Soul.

  Choa Kok Sui

  Soul, Forgiving, Heal

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• There aren't many things as therapeutic as smiles and laughter. Whenever you look at things in a lighter vein, it shows that your heart is in the right place.

  Douglas Pagels

  Laughter, Attitude, Heart

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• Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Writing, Editing, Issues

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Oct 25, 2015

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• Billy here has been talkin' about slicin' his wrists again, so is there seven of you guys who'd like to join him and make it therapeutic?

  Ken Kesey

  Guy, Seven, Wrists

  Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.235, Penguin

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• There is something therapeutic about doing for others that lifts a person out of the rut of self-thought.

  Tim LaHaye

  Self, Ruts, Persons

  Tim LaHaye, Ed Hindson (2010). “Seduction of the Heart”, p.100, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I know that spinning sets me in a trance; it soothes me and charges my batteries at the same time. When times are tough I sit down to spin during the news-broadcasts, with therapeutic results.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Batteries, News, Spinning

  Elizabeth Zimmermann (2012). “Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac: The Commemorative Edition”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• The world news might not be therapeutic.

  Ken Kesey

  World News, Might, News

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• The Four Noble Truths are pragmatic rather than dogmatic. They suggest a course of action to be followed rather than a set of dogmas to be believed. The four truths are prescriptions for behavior rather than descriptions of reality. The Buddha compares himself to a doctor who offers a course of therapeutic treatment to heal one’s ills. To embark on such a therapy is not designed to bring one any closer to ‘the Truth’ but to enable one’s life to flourish here and now, hopefully leaving a legacy that will continue to have beneficial repercussions after one’s death. (154)

  Stephen Batchelor

  Buddhism, Reality, Doctors

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• Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the ‘healing feeling.’

  John Bradshaw

  Pain, Sadness, Healing

  John Bradshaw (2010). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.78, Health Communications, Inc.

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• I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

  Lucinda Williams

  Writing, Stuff, Firsts

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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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• As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, that serves you from infancy through old age, that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing, and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options.

  Andrew Weil

  Age, Care, Good Health

  Andrew Weil, M.D. (2010). “You Can't Afford to Get Sick: Your Guide to Optimum Health and Health Care”, p.8, Penguin

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• When people say ceramics is therapeutic and seductive, I think it's really about the wheel. Nothing I've done has that feeling; I feel like I'm fighting with the material the whole time. It doesn't want to be vague. It doesn't want to be asymmetrical. It doesn't want to have different clays combined. It doesn't want to do any of the things I make it do.

  Francesca DiMattio

  Fighting, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic.

  Janice Erlbaum

  Healing, Past, Events

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I became an actor to escape my own personality. Acting is the most therapeutic thing in the world. You see, through acting you come full circle in your personality and, oh, what a grand time you can have along the way being wonderful people through your characters...I think all the courage that I may lack personally I have as an actor.

  George C. Scott

  Character, Thinking, Circles

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• Working on television is therapeutic to me. When that camera comes on all negativity vanishes. I forget about the fight I had with my neighbor. I forget about the pain in my left foot. I forget about my dog dying. Performing, for me, is an emotional cure all.

  Todd Newton

  Dog, Pain, Fighting

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

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• I think it's therapeutic when we play. It's just like therapy.

  Sam McCandless

  Thinking, Play, Therapy

  "Cold Interview With Kelly Hayes (And A Cameo From Drummer Sam Mccandless)". IGN Interview, www.ign.com. August 8, 2003.

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• You can't treat an illness with cosmetic surgery, and that's why it would be great if there were qualified therapists in plastic surgeons' offices, and that people would go to a therapeutic meeting before plastic surgery. I think that should be part of the FDA requirement.

  Sharon Stone

  Thinking, Fda, Office

  "Romancing With Stone". Interview with Ruchel Louis Coetzee, www.newyou.com. March 14, 2014.

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• Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of a rapidly muttered list of horrific possible side effects. When the ad is over, I can't remember a thing about what the pill is supposed to do, except perhaps cause nausea, liver damage, projectile vomiting, a nasty rash, a four-hour erection, and sudden death. Sudden death is my favorite because there is something comical about it being a side effect. What exactly is the main effect in that case? Relief from abdominal bloating?

  Charles Krauthammer

  Exactly Is, Oddities, Effort

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• Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Lying, Optimistic, Doctors

  1910 Misalliance, preface.

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• Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment...o r creating this alternate universe. Art gives me the freedom to do that.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Art, Creating, Giving

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• I think of my shows as family reunions. I give 100% every time. I just do. It's a huge therapeutic release. Also I love my touring family. And I love my audiences very much.

  Paula Cole

  Thinking, Giving, Family Reunion

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• I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Night, Married, Cooks

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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