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• Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Soul, Fancy, Arise

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• The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'

  Alfred Korzybski

  Identity, Negative, Fundamentals

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.10, Institute of GS

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• The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.

  Epictetus

  Sorrow, Wish, Doe

  Epictetus (1926). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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• Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Way, Patient, Cognitive Therapy

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• He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Done, Ruins, Neglect

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.69, Xist Publishing

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• We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

  Euripides

  Missing, Brain, Mind

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• Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Thinking, Mind, Cognitive Therapy

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• Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

  Jack Kornfield

  Buddhist, Firsts, Therapists

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• I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.

  J. Cole

  Heart, Long, Hip Hop

  "J. Cole On Competition And Writing Honest Songs". "Microphone Check" with Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Frannie Kelley, www.npr.org. June 23, 2013.

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• The pack includes analysis and summary forms as well as very explicit links between assessment and individualised intervention...these materials are often lacking in published therapy programmes and are especially helpful...the pack provides very clear guidelines...overall it will be a very significant addition to speech and language therapy practice.

  Linda Armstrong

  Assessment, Practice, Analysis

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• For the recuperation of body and mind, there is nothing better than natural therapy - sand, sunshine and surf.

  Max Dupain

  Sunshine, Mind, Body

  Max Dupain, Jill White, Matthew Cawood (2000). “Dupain's beaches”

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• Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that he or she has a medical problem.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Medical Problems, Fasting, Firsts

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• Play Therapy is based upon the fact that play is the child's natural medium of self-expression. It is an opportunity which is given to the child to 'play out' his feelings and problems just as, in certain types of adult therapy, an individual 'talks out' his difficulties.

  Virginia Axline

  Children, Opportunity, Self

  Virginia Mae Axline, (2013). “Play Therapy - The Inner Dynamics of Childhood”, p.15, Read Books Ltd

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• The United States has an active pharmaceutical industry that has brought huge benefits to the U.S. public. Most Americans, who benefit from these advances, have little understanding of how difficult it is to create an important new medical therapy and make it available to improve public health.

  Robert Jarvik

  Understanding, Important, United States

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• I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.

  William Styron

  Writing, People, Finals

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.

  David Chase

  People, Needs, Degradation

  "TELEVISION; The Real Boss Of 'The Sopranos'". Interview with Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. February 29, 2004.

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• I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on auditions. I had to be humiliated into it.

  Ellen Barkin

  Years, People, Lazy

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• Some people have therapy, some people are alcoholics or they're in AA. Some people jump out of planes on weekends or find ways to release this kind of thing. And for me, it's acting. I find acting very therapeutic for whatever it is.

  Kevin Bacon

  Weekend, People, Acting

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• Every time I do an interview, it's like serious therapy. But real therapy isn't something that I'd ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.

  James Blunt

  Real, Interviews, Serious

  "My body and soul". www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2008.

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• Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.

  Paul Berg

  Cells, Research, Today

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• Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

  Colbie Caillat

  Song, Writing, Feelings

  "Up Close with Colbie Caillat". Interview with Jené Luciani, www.shape.com.

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• I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar.

  Arthur Darvill

  Guitar, Piano, Feelings

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

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• I'm too conceited for therapy.

  Glen Duncan

  Conceited

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• I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.' I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much. I have young children, and I'm just pretty much crazed.

  Hope Davis

  Girlfriend, Children, Years

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

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• I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

  Jenna Fischer

  Book, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2011.

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