“Woody Allen once said that 90 percent of life is about showing up. Ninety percent of healing people in psychological pain is shutting up - at least long enough to let them bleed the truth. That sounds easy, but it isn't. (68)” — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
“Nothing overdone, nothing racy, which made her all the more alluring.” — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems? — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is why sharing… — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
“Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children… it is the reason… — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
“I shook my head at all the things that can happen to break a man as he grows up and away from the pure… — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut. — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
“That's what a little victory in psychiatry looks like. You slip into the shadows, dodging the mind's defense mechanisms, glad enough to take a… — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
I think men should be able to veto women's abortions if they're willing to care for the child after it's born. — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
“The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.” — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
“Like most of the connections that explain the pain in our hearts, he couldn't bring it to mind. He couldn't see the truth because… — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
Insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly. — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
If you take the teachings of Jesus, whether you consider yourself saved or you don't, those teachings are pristine. They're wonderful guides for life.… — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
“Maybe learning to be human was about learning to live in pain, not trying to figure out how to live pain-free. (156)” — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when it hurts.… — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
Most children would rather preserve the fantasy of a loving connection with their fathers and mothers, at all costs, even if it costs them… — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
