Therapy Quotes

The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.

Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.

Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.

Never diagnose a (client) until after their therapy is over.

It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now. Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it's the same for your heart.

I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.

Thirties. Go to therapy. Clean up all of the sh-t. Clean up all of the toxins and the noise. Understand who you are. Educate yourself on the self.

If I got a dollar every time someone told me to name my future kid 'Batmo' I'd almost have enough to pay for therapy for a kid named Batmo.

Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.

No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.

I'm lucky to be alive. It took three years of therapy to recover but I did it.

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.

There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful

Dancing together in kirtans can help us develop friendships that no Mediation Therapy can.

The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.

Football is not a job, but my best therapy

We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.

Well, my brother says 'Hello.' So, hooray for speech therapy.

I'm not an economist, and I'm not a proponent of shock therapy.

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

Therapy can help you grow. Fears will just disappear.

I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.

There is no better therapy than understanding.

Laying on the floor and listening to music might be all the therapy that you need.

I've never, ever had any therapy. Some might say I need it, but I've never seen a shrink or a psychologist or anything like that.

I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy.

To me, as to Pythagoras, music is not merely entertainment or amusement...but therapy...for actuating...the healing power that exists within us all: Life Energy.

I see therapy as a substitute for friendship. I see it as a commentary on the impersonality of society that people have to pay someone to tell them their troubles.

The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.

Honestly, shopping beats therapy, anytime. It costs the same and you get a dress out of it.

Gardening is the best therapy in the world.

I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole.

Massage therapy has been shown to relieve depression, especially in people who have chronic fatigue syndrome; other studies also suggest benefit for other populations.

I'm at my happiest when I'm on a movie set. It's like therapy for me.

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.

No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.

I'd be cheating everyone here, the staff and rest of my teammates, if I wasn't able to stay on top of my work. It was almost like therapy, to come back and get in an environment I'm comfortable with.

Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It's great therapy.