Many patients cannot hear until they feel heard.

The first goal is for the clinician to find the patient, and the patient to find the clinician, as both are required for a real alliance.

Having listened to people for a long time, I believe many of us should be thankful not to be shot.

Above all, the clinician must not shake what little faith the patient has in himself.

The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

Of course they fought as lovers must do to find a liveable space.

Today many medications act across diagnostic groups. Alliance effects also transcend specific psychotherapy methods. Both may be affecting profound psychopathological processes.

Suffering brings the patient to us...the patient needs to feel heard and seen-that is, met, by another person.

An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment.

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

Step inside your favorite storybook and become lost in a journey only your imagination can envision.

I have built a city from the books I've read. A good book sings a a timeless music that is heard in the choir lofts, and balconies, and theaters that thrived within that secret city inside me.

All connections matter, but the people you depend upon matter most.

Christianity is not engrossed by this transitory world, but measures all things by the thought of eternity.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

Seeking happiness apart from a right relationship God is like trying to turn on a light that's unplugged.

The thing most people don't pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It's 24/7.

Thing is, I don't like ties. I like to win....by big margins.

Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.