"The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful."

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Pamela Stephenson

#Insightful Quotes #Stories Quotes #Patient Quotes

“If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.”
“Each personâ€™s life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything that came before.”
“I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.”
“The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise acquires rhythm, the spring is transformed into a dance, force becomes dynamic, and outlines figures.”
“You can't blame a match for a house made of straw, Alek.”
“Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.”
“In whatever sport of field of endeavor you are interested, you should do whatever is necessary to compliment your God-given talent with proper mental preparation so as to do "the best you can." The criterion should be to fully exploit your potential rather than to win at any cost. What more could anyone ever ask of you than to be the best you possibly can?”
“Silence is sometimes the only way to share the unsharable.”

Source : Ron McLarty (2007). “Traveler”, p.65, Penguin

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