When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism. — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how he himself… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along. — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions. — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my relationships with those who… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting. — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them. — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
Everybody has a great deal of experience in living. But no one lives in anything like the highest style of the art; and it… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever. — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
If you do jot feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
[O]ne of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique, simple existent… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it. — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate. — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image