“Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.” John Wooden #living #earning #life

“An unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates #life #awareness

“Learning never exhausts the mind.” Leonardo da Vinci #learning

“May you live all the days of your life.” Jonathan Swift #living

When you grow up", I said, "do you ever stop feeling little and weak?" "No," she says. "There's always a little frail and tiny thing inside, no matter how grown-up you are. David Almond #innerchild

You cannot find peace by avoiding life. Virginia Woolf #peace #life

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. Virginia Woolf #poetry #prose

“Therapy isn’t radio. We don’t need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when it’s quiet, surprising things happen.” Mary Pipher #Therapy #quietness

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.” Graham Greene, Ways of Escape #writing

"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail." Maslow #tools #behaviour

"The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent." Jung #descent #ascent

"The effective therapist should never try to force discussion of any content area: therapy should not be theory-driven but relationship-driven." Yalom #therapy #relationship

"I prefer to think of my patients and myself as fellow travelers, a term that abolishes distinctions between ‘them’ (the afflicted) and ‘us’ (the healers).” Yalom #therapy

“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.” Carl Jung #change #acceptance

“What you resist, persists.” Carl Jung #resistance

“I’m not perfect….but I’m enough” Carl Rogers #goodenough

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” Carl Jung #Unconscious

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”   Søren Kierkegaard #despair #authenticity

“Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.” Carl Rogers #life #process #change

“Depression is like a woman in black. If she turns up, don’t shoo her away. Invite her in, offer her a seat, treat her like a guest and listen to what she wants to say.” Carl Jung #depression