"And so, it is not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he really wants is to remain the same and to get the therapist to make him feel better. (4)"

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Source : SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

Sheldon B. Kopp

#Feel Better Quotes #Want Quotes #Patient Quotes

“Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.”
“Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to save their souls.... Consistent with this goal, the first book written and printed for children in America was titled Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes in either England, drawn from the Breasts of both Testaments for their Souls' Nourishment.”
“I had my whole life planned.. I knew exactly where it was taking me..”
“Honor lies in honest toil.”

Source : Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”
“Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.”
“The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.”
“The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.”
“I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn't a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me -- I actually took my teachers seriously!”

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