Therapy Quotes - Page 13

• The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.

  Albert Ellis

  Wise, Feel Better, Get Better

  79 Copy quote

• Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The English tradition is to get a grip, whereas the American version is to get in touch with your feelings, to say: 'I'm a good person. Isn't it terrible when bad things happen to people like me?'

  Peter York

  People, Feelings, Pressure

  "The man and the marabou" by Peter York, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For the only therapy is life. The patient must learn to live, to live with his split, his conflict, his ambivalence, which no therapy can take away, for if it could, it would take with it the actual spring of life.

  Otto Rank

  Spring, Splits, Patient

  Otto Rank (1936). “Will therapy: an analysis of the therapeutic process in terms of relationship”

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.

  Irving Kirsch

  Running, Long, Type

  "Antidepressants: The Emperor’s New Drugs?" by Irving Kirsch, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2010.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.

  Irving Kirsch

  Thinking, People, Technique

  54 Copy quote

• Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

  Alain de Botton

  Pain, Insomnia, Injury

  Twitter post from Sep 18, 2012

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

  George Fetherling

  Speech, Young, Journal

  4 Copy quote

• Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in some alternative sense. If a therapy or treatment is anything more than a placebo, properly conducted double-blind trials, statistically analyzed, will eventually bring it through with flying colours. Many candidates for recognition as orthodox medicines fail the test and are summarily dropped. The alternative label should not (though, alas, it does) provide immunity from the same fate.

  Richard Dawkins

  Fate, Medicine, Flying

  7 Copy quote

• I believe therapy can be done more rapidly. I'm into your finding the source of what's making you think and feel the way you do and shifting it quickly.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Thinking, Done

  Playboy Interview, www.awaken.com. August 17, 2013.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some friends of mine work in an office. They were getting really nervous from their coffee breaks, so they started to have wig breaks. They tried on wigs for 15 minutes. They found this relaxing. So that's Wig Therapy.

  Laurie Anderson

  Coffee, Office, Wigs

  9 Copy quote

• Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available, the rise of the Internet or the latest advancements in biomedical gene therapies, our nation leads the world in transformative innovations.

  Martin Heinrich

  Moon, Technology, America

  53 Copy quote

• Work is honorable. It is good therapy for most problems. It is the antidote for worry. It is the equalizer for deficiency of native endowment. Work makes it possible for the average to approach genius. What we may lack in aptitude, we can make up for in performance. . . .

  J. Richard Clarke

  Work, Average, Worry

  8 Copy quote

• Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.

  Langston Hughes

  Summer, Rain, Heart

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.525, University of Missouri Press

  207 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yoga calms me down. It's a therapy session, a workout and meditation all at the same time!

  Jennifer Aniston

  Workout, Yoga, Meditation

  7 Copy quote

• I come from a family and a heritage where you don't really go to therapy unless you're crazy. I want people to know that that's so not the case. It's enriching, and I've learned this new tool.

  Eva Mendes

  Crazy, People, Tools

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one's batteries.

  Grace Kelly

  Beach, Love Is, Batteries

  "The Milwaukee Sentinel Princess Grace finds relaxation in her gardens", January 1, 1981.

  233 Copy quote

  Show source

• Addiction might be redefined not as a character flaw but as a "biochemical deficit management." Our emotional habits will become an accepted factor of good health, along with slogans like "Heartache can be harmful to your unborn children."

  Marni Jackson

  Children, Pain, Character

  Marni Jackson (2012). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, p.348, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have the means right now to live long enough to live forever. Existing knowledge can be aggressively applied to dramatically slow down aging processes so we can still be in vital health when the more radical life-extending therapies from biotechnology and nanotechnology become available. But most baby boomers won't make it because they are unaware of the accelerating aging process in their bodies and the opportunity to intervene.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Baby, Mean, Opportunity

  "The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology". Book by Ray Kurzweil, 2005.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

  Julianne Hough

  People, Laughing, Trying

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Character, Process, Private Things

  4 Copy quote

• I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Character, Gone, Emotion

  4 Copy quote

• I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.

  Irrfan Khan

  Unbearable, Crisis

  6 Copy quote

• In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.

  Irrfan Khan

  India, Needs, Culture

  5 Copy quote

• By connecting with one's Divine Self, Carol Whitaker has captured the essence of transformation from within. Like a diet for the mind, Ridiculously Happy! guides you on a spiritual journey allowing you to harness the power of the mind, body and spirit to achieve a level of mental and physical wellness one may not have thought possible. I'm a big fan of energy therapy and love that Carol shares the EFT tapping technique which anyone can quickly and easily use to find peace and healing in their lives. This book is a must have!

  Laura M. Brotherson

  Spiritual, Book, Healing

  4 Copy quote

• Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicine as we used to know it.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Medicine, Drug

  Quoted October 2000

  4 Copy quote

  Show source