Therapy Quotes - Page 5

• Avoidance is a wonderful therapy

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Wonderful, Avoidance

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.214, Scholastic UK

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• Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.

  Chris Kattan

  Character, Creating, Able

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Bored, Machines, Next

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.45, Macmillan

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• We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Too Much, Clear, Knows

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.93, Macmillan

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• We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Use

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.69, Random House

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• I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.

  Marilyn Manson

  Differences, Making A Difference, Bills

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• I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one.

  Sylvia Plath

  Pain, Thinking, Baths

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• She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy, when the so-called counselors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees. -Artemis Fowl

  Eoin Colfer

  Degrees, Fowl, Littles

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• Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

  Justin Timberlake

  Writing, Studios

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• If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.

  Bob Balaban

  Serious, Attention, Puppets

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2006.

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• Two years? That's entirely too long. If you want, we can take care of that. After two years it's pure therapy.

  Ilona Andrews

  Years, Two, Long

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.189, Penguin

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• ... once you were in, they put a note in your file that said you were in therapy, and all your teachers saw that file. They might as well have tattooed CRAZY on your forehead. The next year every teacher would be watching you for the first weird thing you did—and has there ever been a kid who never does anything an adult considers weird?

  John Barnes

  Teacher, Crazy, Kids

  John Barnes (2009). “Tales of the Madman Underground”, p.15, Penguin

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• If I think she' hot and it turns out she's a psychopath, then what does that say about me? I'm totally not ready for that kind of therapy.

  Barry Lyga

  Thinking, Hot, Doe

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• She laughed softly. "Therapy isn't so much about what I think as you do." "Then why do it at all?" "Because we don't always know what it is we're thinking or feeling. When you have a guide, it's easier to figure things out. You'll often discover that you already know what to do. I can help you ask questions and go places you mihgt not have on your own." "Well, you're good at the qujestion part." I noted dryly.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Feelings, Helping

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.149, Penguin

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• What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.

  Carrie Fisher

  Worry, Guy, What If

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Fine," Connor tells him. "Think about stuff until your head explodes. But the only thing I want to think about is surviving to eighteen." I find your shallowness both refreshing and disappointing at the same time. Do you think that means I need therapy?

  Neal Shusterman

  Mean, Thinking, Needs

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.

  Lady Gaga

  Creativity, Want, Mess

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• The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Mean, History, Use

  "The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society". Book by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (p. 93), 1993.

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• I remember a group therapy session when one of the patients was reluctantly turning his corner. He would accept it, he said, but he wouldn't like the idea of having to solve problems every day for the rest of his life. My co-therapist told him that it was not required that he like it. She shared her own displeasure, saying: 'I remember that when I first discovered what life was like, I was furious. I guess I'm still kind of mad sometimes.' (135)

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Ideas, Mad, Groups

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• It doesn’t matter how many years go by, how much therapy I embark on, how much I try to achieve that elusive thing known as perspective, which is supposed to put all past wrongs into their rightful and diminished place, that happy place where all the talk is of lessons learned and inner peace. No one will ever understand the potency of my memories, which are so solid and vivid that I don’t need a psychiatrist to tell me they are driving me crazy. My subconscious has not buried them, my superego has not restrained them. They are front and center, they are going on right now.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Memories, Crazy, Past

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Body is not stiff, mind is stiff.

  K. Pattabhi Jois

  Pain, Yoga, Mind

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• You don't scare me, Cadence Jones. I've lived with crazy, I've ridden with crazy, I've vacationed with crazy, I've visited crazy in various hospitals, I've sat in on therapy sessions with crazy. Frankly, I think women who don't have major emotional disorders are really very dull.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Crazy, Emotional, Thinking

  MaryJanice Davidson (2010). “Me, Myself and Why?”, p.125, St. Martin's Press

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• I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy.

  Samantha Morton

  Hate, Character, Thinking

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• It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide.

  Jodi Picoult

  Stupid, Buying, Belief

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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