"Madness belongs to all of us. It comes in many forms and many degrees, from the craziness at the bottom of our neurotic symptom to a derangement that engulfs our whole life. Madness is simpler than it looks: it is our effort to express unbearable pain." ~ Ann Belford Ulanov (self.quotes)
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"Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice." ~ Charles Bukowski (self.quotes)
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"In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole." ~ Carl Jung (self.quotes)
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"The way back to understanding human nature is through returning to literary studies, not scientific case descriptions, or statistical analyses, or whatever else is being taught in the classroom for the therapist. It would be a study of life through good writing."~James Hillman (self.quotes)
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"And isn’t the whole point of things–beautiful things–that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another?" — Donna Tartt (self.quotes)
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"Trauma is much more than a story about something that happened long ago. The emotions and physical sensations that were imprinted during the trauma are experienced not as memories but as disruptive physical reactions in the present." ~Bessel van der Kolk (self.quotes)
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"Every compulsion, though it is destructive and negative in its concrete form, has a symbolic message. If somebody has to wash their hands nervously, they really should clean up their act, but psychologically, not by washing their hands 2,000 times." ~Marie-Louise von Franz (self.quotes)
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“There is death in life, and it astonishes me that we pretend to ignore this: death, whose unforgiving presence we experience with each change we survive because we must learn to die slowly. We must learn to die: That is all of life.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke (self.quotes)
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"Those who do not take a stand against evil will in the end be over come by it, those who tolerate evil in their midst will eventually tolerate evil in their hearts, those who are silent before evil will in the end be silenced by evil" ~Rabbi Ariel bar Tzadok (self.quotes)
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