"The overall goal [of counseling] is to help family members become 'systems experts' who could know [their] family system so well that the family could readjust itself without the help of an expert."

-- Murray Bowen

#Goal Quotes #Experts Quotes #Helping Quotes

“I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.”
“The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.”
“I want to be a Christian like Christ - loving and accepting of other people.”
“The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city.”

Source : David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.243, Transaction Publishers
“The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.”

Source : Ian Fleming (1955). “Moonraker”, Penguin Group USA
“A decade ago, I really did believe that the average investor could do it himself. I was wrong. I've come to the sad conclusion that only a tiny minority, at most one percent, are capable of pulling it off. Heck, if Helen Young Hayes, Robert Sanborn, Julian Robertson, and the nation's largest pension funds can't get it right, what chance does John Q. Investor have?”
“Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.”
“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”

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