Sue Johnson famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Love has an immense ability to help heal the devastating wounds that life sometimes deals us. Love also enhances our sense of connection to the larger world. Loving responsiveness is the foundation of a truly compassionate, civilized society.
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When love doesn't work, we hurt. Indeed, “hurt feelings†is a precisely accurate phrase, according to psychologist Naomi Eisenberger of the University of California. Her brain imaging studies show that rejection and exclusion trigger the same circuits in the same part of the brain, the anterior cingulate, as physical pain.
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Being the “best you can be†is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.
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Naming an emotion begins the process of regulating it and reflecting on it.
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The most functional way to regulate difficult emotions in love relationships is to share them.
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Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.
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In insecure relationships, we disguise our vulnerabilities so our partner never really sees us.
-- Sue Johnson
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I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
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John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.
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You know it's right when you feel this undeniable connection and chemistry.
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The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and learn the Truth, are the great objects of every good Mason.
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I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
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No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.
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