Sheldon B. Kopp Quotes

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• The continuing struggle was once described in the following metaphor by a patient who had successfully completed a long course of psychotherapy: 'I came to… Bread
• And so, it is not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he really… Astonishing
• We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are… Absurd
• But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else. Slowly,… Anyone
• I remember a group therapy session when one of the patients was reluctantly turning his corner. He would accept it, he said, but he wouldn't… Accept
• Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free. Been
• Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth. Allow
• That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter. Find
• So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned. Funny
• If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if… Alone

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