Books Quote by Julie Lythcott-Haims

“Mostly we tell the story of our lives, or mostly we're taught to tell it, as a quest to avoid suffering, though if your…

— Rebecca Solnit

“It is the sad privilege of medicine, and especially that of psychiatry, to ever witness the weaknesses of human nature and the reverse side…

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing

“a psychiatrist without compassion is a terrifying thing indeed”

— Jamie Deckoff-Jones

“I listen to my client’s thoroughly as they explain their life challenges to me. My goal is to exercise compassion and understanding. Assuring clients…

— Janice Newman

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired,…

— Jeff Shinabarger

“I lead a life of contradiction. I’ve experienced horrific pain, a non-caring medical system, and total loss of the career I felt I was…

— Cynthia Toussaint

“no medicine cures what happiness cannot. - of love and other demons”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to kindness and wisdom we make promises only; pain we obey.”

— Marcel Proust

“Compassion: a robust dance between grace and wisdom.”

— Soul Dancer

“As a woman ravaged by intense pain and the loss of virtually all my life’s goals, I have been transformed by suffering and love.…

— Cynthia Toussaint

“The Greatest Afflictions brings forth the Greatest Blessings.”

— Laphoia V.Long

“So actual blessing is received when the mind’s virtuous attributes gain strength and its defective characteristics weaken or deteriorate. The”

— Dalai Lama XIV