Keith Ablow famous quotes

Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.
-- Keith Ablow

#Get Better #Trying #Okay

If you're going to have 19 children, you should supervise them well.
-- Keith Ablow

#Children #Should #Wells

Relationships are never chance events.
-- Keith Ablow

#Events #Chance

If you take the teachings of Jesus, whether you consider yourself saved or you don't, those teachings are pristine. They're wonderful guides for life. And there's nothing in them that says hurt other people.
-- Keith Ablow

#Jesus #Hurt #Teaching

When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.
-- Keith Ablow

#Simple #People #Buttons

...Some people hurt so much they can't take what they need, even when someone wants to give it to them. (106)
-- Keith Ablow

#Hurt #People #Giving

God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is why sharing pain freely feels very much like love, and may be the same thing. (207)
-- Keith Ablow

#Pain #Dark #Suffering

Most children would rather preserve the fantasy of a loving connection with their fathers and mothers, at all costs, even if it costs them their self-esteem. When you're three or seven years old, it's less frightening to think of yourself as an unlovable, disappointing screwup than to recognize the fact that you're living with a monster.
-- Keith Ablow

#Mother #Children #Self Esteem

...the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)
-- Keith Ablow

#People #Warning #Facts

For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when it hurts. It's supposed to. (46)
-- Keith Ablow

#Hurt #Exit #Easy

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.
-- Keith Ablow

#People #Tragedy #Danger

What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?
-- Keith Ablow

#Rights #Privacy #Hell

There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)
-- Keith Ablow

#Pain #Evil #World

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.
-- Keith Ablow

#Track #Guy #Levels

Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.
-- Keith Ablow

#Hurt #Children #Empathy

Deep down, everyone wants the truth.
-- Keith Ablow

#Want

What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?
-- Keith Ablow

#Knowing #Answers #Might

My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.
-- Keith Ablow

#Drug #Tears #Want

Sometimes when you push someone, you find out who that person really is.
-- Keith Ablow

#Sometimes #Persons

But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.
-- Keith Ablow

#Self #Sometimes #Produce

I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.
-- Keith Ablow

#Church #Littles #Cocaine

Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.
-- Keith Ablow

#Real #Guy #Finding Yourself

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.
-- Keith Ablow

#Pain #Roots #Evil

People react predictably, especially when they don't have time to think.
-- Keith Ablow

#Thinking #People #Time To Think

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.
-- Keith Ablow

#People #Evil #World

But that's the hardest part of healing.' What?' Realizing there's no one to hate.
-- Keith Ablow

#Hate #Healing #Realizing

We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.
-- Keith Ablow

#War #Sight #Addiction

People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.
-- Keith Ablow

#People #Truth Is

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.
-- Keith Ablow

#Guilty

The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.
-- Keith Ablow

#Holes #Irrational #Guts

A jealous husband is an ugly thing.
-- Keith Ablow

#Husband #Jealous #Ugly

I think men should be able to veto women's abortions if they're willing to care for the child after it's born.
-- Keith Ablow

#Children #Men #Thinking