"There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism."

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Source : Harry Stack Sullivan (1953). “The collected works”

Harry Stack Sullivan

#Fun Quotes #Optimism Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The human interest, and the natural interest, and the spiritual interest of this planet need to begin to take a priority over the corporate interest, the military interest, and the materialistic interests.”
“There has to be a woman, but not much of a one. A good horse is much more important.”
“I'm a true believer that unless you're Prince or Stevie Wonder - and even Prince is showing that he needs help - not everybody can produce themselves. I'm definitely not that person.”
“The core of a man's life should be his relationship with God. The man who walks humbly with God is motivated and empowered to step up and assume the difficult responsibilitie s that come his way.”
“in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them.”
“Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.”
“I just feel like there hasn't been enough time away from all this other stuff and into this new world or sort of big world that it hasn't worn off yet.”
“I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.”

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