Ready to read on https://t.co/lWOqOm9swJ 5+ Powerful Quotations On Regret You Actually Won’t Regret Reading. By Dr Linda Berman 🎨Silence – Alexej Georgewitsch Von Jawlensky. 1913. Wikimedia Commons #regret

Ready to read on https://t.co/lWOqOm9swJ 5+ Powerful Quotations On Regret You Actually Won’t Regret Reading. By Dr Linda Berman 🎨Silence – Alexej Georgewitsch Von Jawlensky. 1913. Wikimedia Commons #regret

Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty. Sheldon Kopp #personality

For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. Sheldon Kopp

Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth. Sheldon Kopp #control

I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when my eyes are closed, so that I may see clearly. Sheldon Kopp #dreams

Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days. Sheldon Kopp #dreams

The only times that we can have what we long for are those moments when we stop grasping for it. At such times, all things are possible: "to a mind that is 'still' the whole universe surrenders". Sheldon Kopp #longing

You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without; like it or not, she must face her losses and her helplessness to undo them. Sheldon Kopp #losses

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol #sorrow #humour

We are all born into families and cultures we didn't choose, given names we didn't pick, instructed in behaviour and values we might not have freely chosen, and too often we end up expected to live lives designed by others. Sheldon B. Kopp

'I came to therapy hoping to receive butter for the bread of life. Instead, at the end, I emerged with a pail of sour milk, a churn, and instructions on how to use them.' Sheldon B. Kopp #therapy

We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are born into..a family we did not choose, into circumstances we would have had somewhat improved,& we are even called by a name we did not select. Sheldon Kopp

Love is more than simply being open to experiencing the anguish of another person's suffering. It is the willingness to live with the helpless knowing that we can do nothing to save the other from his pain. Sheldon B. Kopp #love

And so, is it not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he really wants is to remain the same and to get the therapist to make him feel better. Sheldon B. Kopp #therapy

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving. Sheldon B. Kopp #giving

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next. Sheldon B. Kopp #change

The only meaning in our lives is what we each bring to them. Killing the Buddha on the road means destroying the hope that anything outside of ourselves can be our master. No one is any bigger than anyone else. Sheldon Kopp #meaning

The Zen Master warns: 'If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!' This admonition points up that no meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddhahood of each of us has already been obtained. We need only recognize it. Sheldon Kopp #Buddhahood

“The therapist is not a guide with a map, but a fellow traveler on the same uncertain road.” Sheldon Kopp #therapist

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.” Sheldon Kopp