Karl A. Menninger Quotes
Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.
Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.
The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius.
Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.
To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.
It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.
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