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“If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the lesson that what my patients tell me is likely to be true - that many times when I believed that I was right and my patients were wrong, it turned out, though often only after a prolonged search, that my rightness was superficial whereas their rightness was profound.”
Source : Heinz Kohut (2009). “How Does Analysis Cure?”, p.93, University of Chicago Press
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“The average human has one breast and one testicle.”
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“If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.”
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“Our lifestyle, language, attitudes, and manner of dress reflect on His name. He leads us in paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Unless you are honestly convinced that the thing in question will bring glory to God, then don't do it.”
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“One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field with a very primitive plow; pulling the plow were an ox and a woman. Now, if it means that we have destroyed this romantic picture by bringing in tractors, combines, and threshing machines, this is true: we have.”
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“History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.”
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“But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.”
Source : Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.206, Simon and Schuster
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“Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.”
