"I learn by going where I have to go."

-- Theodore Roethke

#Character Quotes

“Your word is your bond, and you do what you say and keep your promise.”
“If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.”
“[Humor] could be dicey for a therapist and needs to be used very deftly.”

Source : Source: www.psychologyart.com
“I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.”

Source : "So, Clive, why did it all go wrong?" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2001.
“There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.”
“Although you feel relief now, this is likely to be the source of many sleepless nights for you. You will lie awake, look upon your heart, and find it unlovely. You will be certain that (...) you are the greatest of monsters. This is a good thing; although you may forgive yourself, you must never come to think that your actions were in any way justifiable. But- (...) Being a sane, honorable human being is not always comfortable.”
“An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens to me, that I can affect, or that affects me.”
“Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it.”

Source : Ann Wigmore (1984). “The Hippocrates Diet and Health Program”, p.165, Penguin

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