Karl A. Menninger Quotes

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• Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us.... Inspirational
• Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.... Famous Love
• Unrest of spirit is a mark of life. Joy
• One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him. Doe
• Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a war… Aggression
• We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to… Criminals
• Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible. Cheerfully
• People repeat in adult life emotions they experience in childhood. Many of the people whom I spent the last 30 or 40 years treating at… Adult
• TO THOSE WHO WOULD USE INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DEATH - TO STRENGTHEN THE WILL TO LIVE AGAINST THE WISH TO DIE, AND TO… Battle
• Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life. Adventure
• We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn destructive… Actually Threaten
• It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of… America
• Attitudes are much more important than facts. Attitude
• Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law. Brother
• Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because… American
• Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. Both
• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are… Coaching
• The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by… All
• What's done to children, they will do to society. Birth
• Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. Hope

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