Therapy is not to 'talk about' things, but to change the person's life, and to relieve suffering, such as depression, anxiety, or relationship problems.
David D. Burns
Related Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX There's a stigma on the word 'therapy.' People relate it to big problems. That's som... JUAN PABLO GALAVIS Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as 'ch... SIRI HUSTVEDT Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI We all have something about ourselves that we'd change if we could in a perfect world, be it our... KERI HILSON I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's de... KAY REDFIELD JAMISON I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES Negative thinking patterns associated with low self-esteem, such as assuming you will fail at things... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN The problem is, when I talk about heartbreak or whatever, people want to melt it down to some break-... LYKKE LI To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE According to studies, empathic children are more susceptible to developing problems such as anxiety ... MATEO SOL Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to... MARY ROACH Sexual performance problems, such as impotence and frigidity, are 70 to 90 percent changeable. But a... MARTIN SELIGMAN I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN Never be depressed about something you have the power to change. JACEY R. FOLEY It's important to work through things in a relationship. You can't just give up because you&... TAYLOR LAUTNER When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the perso... PATRICIA REILLY GIFF To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, ... DEEPIKA PADUKONE I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a... JULIA SAWALHA Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN I want to do things that will change someone's life, not something they'll forget about tomo... DAVEIGH CHASE I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleas... BRYAN ADAMS I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my rel... JOSE JAMES I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core ... DONALD BERWICK A lot of times I watch TV and I watch film and there's so many things I'd love to talk about... ALICIA KEYS I have a master's in psychology, and depression and anxiety are considered to be cyclical. AUTRE NE VEUT I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come a... WOLE SOYINKA I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I c... EMMA STONE If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change t... EAZY-E It's not like I try to be different, but every single person is unique, and every single person ... LINDSEY STIRLING The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve s... PATCH ADAMS If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you... DOROTHY STRATTEN When we talk about having a life of significance and meaning, it's not about fame or money or re... TIM TEBOW Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to cha... DAVID NICHOLLS There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don... DAVID LEVITHAN Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for. IAN MCSHANE Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of... CANDIS CAYNE Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxie... VANESSA CARLTON Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads ... MATT HAIG We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change ... JEAN SMART Why waste your time being depressed about something you have the power to change? JACEY R. FOLEY We're in business to relieve human suffering, to help feed the poor, to provide education and cu... JON HUNTSMAN, SR. Life is too short to be scared and not take risks. I'd rather be the person that's like, ... JUSTINE SKYE We didn't shoot in 3-D. They've talked about doing a conversion and there's been a lot o... ZACK SNYDER The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationshi... TONY KUSHNER The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that ... STEPHEN FRY We'd like to prearrange our life on all levels. We'd prefer it to be scripted. But it's ... WILLIAM HURT I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never bee... AL YANKOVIC I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run ... PAT PAULSEN I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because ... PENELOPE CRUZ It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting. INGRID BETANCOURT I suppose I just had this Christian idea about how I ought to go about my life. I thought, 'If I... PADDY CONSIDINE I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, ... NAS To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime ... RICKY WILLIAMS It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. A... WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designe... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG I'd love to be a hit in Germany. I'm working on trying to get a gig as David Hasselhoff'... JEN KIRKMAN Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg tim... TOM HOLLANDER The goal when you get into a relationship is not to be out of the relationship. It's to try to s... KATE HUDSON It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie c... VAL KILMER We're all grown men, and we all have our ways of handling our problems. I'm not secretive, b... MALIK JACKSON I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats an... BOB DOLE It takes a strong person to admit he's got problems. Things are bugging you, you've got to g... GERRY COONEY To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist&... ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be for... ROBERT BURNS The landlord's laugh was ready chorus. ROBERT BURNS O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a b... ROBERT BURNS Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. GEORGE BURNS The problem with drinking and driving is that trees defend themselves very well. GEORGE BURNS Be quick to learn and wise to know. GEORGE BURNS Life's but a day at most. GEORGE BURNS Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life. GEORGE BURNS Let us do or die. ROBERT BURNS I look better, feel better, make love better and I'll tell you something else....I never lied better... GEORGE BURNS Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root. ROBERT BURNS It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere. GEORGE BURNS You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. GEORGE BURNS How can I die? I'm booked. GEORGE BURNS If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. GEORGE BURNS By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it. GEORGE BURNS You know you're getting old when you stop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while yo... GEORGE BURNS Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame. ROBERT BURNS Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist. GEORGE BURNS Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting ha... GEORGE BURNS Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto! ROBERT BURNS When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare. ROBERT BURNS Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we ha... ROBERT BURNS I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. GEORGE BURNS Suspense is worst than disappointment. ROBERT BURNS A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who w... H.S.M. BURNS The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men Gang aft agley. ROBERT BURNS Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces. ROBERT BURNS I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. GEORGE BURNS Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ROBERT BURNS If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it. GEORGE BURNS The Thames is liquid history. JOHN BURNS I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discr... ROBERT BURNS How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful. ROBERT BURNS The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God. ROBERT BURNS I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid ... ROBERT BURNS There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. ROBERT BURNS Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised th... ROBERT BURNS Ae fond kiss, and then we sever! A farewell, and then forever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll ... ROBERT BURNS The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature; But still the preaching cant forbea... ROBERT BURNS His locked, lettered, braw brass collar,
Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. ROBERT BURNS Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new. ROBERT BURNS The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air. ROBERT BURNS Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate,
That fate is thine--no distant date;
Stern Ruin's plou... ROBERT BURNS Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! ROBERT BURNS It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.
[Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cru... ROBERT BURNS Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear. ROBERT BURNS And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale. ROBERT BURNS Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair. ROBERT BURNS I'll be merry and free,
I'll be sad for nae-body;
If nae-body cares for me,
I'll care fo... ROBERT BURNS To liken them to your auld-warld squad,
I must needs say comparisons are odd. ROBERT BURNS Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing. FRANK BURNS I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. GEORGE BURNS Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch! GEORGE BURNS Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining ... KEN BURNS All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,
Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn. ROBERT BURNS And there begins a lang digression
About the lords o' the creation. ROBERT BURNS O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I. ROBERT BURNS The wide world is all before us--
But a world without a friend. ROBERT BURNS Affliction's sons are brothers in distress;
A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! ROBERT BURNS In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep. ROBERT BURNS Then horn for horn they stretch and strive;
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive. ROBERT BURNS I waive the quantum o' the sin,
The hazard of concealing:
But, och! it hardens a' within,
... ROBERT BURNS I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, am... ROBERT BURNS Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.
from the poem
The Cotter’s Saturday Ni... ROBERT BURNS Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blu... ROBERT BURNS What's a' your jargon o' your schools,
Your Latin names for horns and stools;
If honest nature... ROBERT BURNS G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be,
Nor am I even the thing I could be,
But twenty times I... ROBERT BURNS Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes!
My peace with these, my love with those.
The burstin... ROBERT BURNS Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots,
Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;-
If there's a hole ... ROBERT BURNS O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent;
Long may thy h... ROBERT BURNS But pleasures are like poppies spread;
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.
Or like the sn... ROBERT BURNS Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn! ROBERT BURNS The mother may forget the child
That smiles sae sweetly on her knee;
But I'll remember thee, G... ROBERT BURNS O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blund... ROBERT BURNS My dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent,
Long may thy hardy sons o... ROBERT BURNS Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of wo. ROBERT BURNS Some wee short hour ayont the twal. ROBERT BURNS The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn,
And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn. ROBERT BURNS Now blooms the lily by the bank,
The primrose down the brae;
The hawthorn's budding in the gle... ROBERT BURNS Mourn, little harebells, o'er the lea;
Ye stately foxgloves fair to see!
Ye woodbines, hanging... ROBERT BURNS The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The man's the gowd for a' that. ROBERT BURNS A prince can mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, and a' that;
But an honest man's aboon his ... ROBERT BURNS A man's a man for a' that! ROBERT BURNS Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman;
Though they may gang a' kennin'... ROBERT BURNS