It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share
Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share
The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share
It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share
Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share
Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share
“We want him to see that as a result of being parented by imperfect parents, he (she) chooses the wrong people for the right… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share
It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share
We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share
To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share
