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
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Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken....
Famous Love
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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
Joy
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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
Doe
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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
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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
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Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.
Cheerfully
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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
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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
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Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life.
Adventure
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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
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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
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Attitudes are much more important than facts.
Attitude
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Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.
Brother
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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
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Both
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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
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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
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What's done to children, they will do to society.
Birth
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Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
Hope
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