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

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.

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.

Many patients cannot hear until they feel heard.

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

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

a fresh mind adds a better mathematic ability #Bweqy

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

I don't aim to offend.

The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by.

I don't kill myself. I can't live like that.

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Education is what allows you to stand out

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.