Therapy Quotes about Life
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Here you will find some of the MANY psychology/therapy-related quotes, profound insights, and thought-inspiring truths we gathered over the years.
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Therapy Quotes About Authenticity
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What you resist, persists. - C.G. Jung
Uncover your truth. Face your truth.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Oscar Wilde
Write your own story. Determine your future.
How can I be susbstantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also if I am to be whole. - C.G. Jung
Be the whole you. The light and the dark.
The road to success is longer than you'd like, but shorter than you imagine. - Tim Fargo
Keep on trying. Make it possible.
We are never so vulnerable as when we love. - Sigmund Freud
Love is risk. Love anyway.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be yourself. It's the best you can be.
There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognise it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation. - Thich Nhat Hanh
Negative emotions can be calmed.
Might not be tonight, tomorrow, or the next day. But everything's going to be okay. - Anonymous
Things get better. Eventually.
Don’t confuse your path with your destination. Just because it's stormy now, doesn't mean you aren't headed for sunshine. - Anonymous
Weather the storm. Sunshine will come.
When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. When life is bitter, say thank you and grow. - Shauna Niequist
Gratefulness is what grows us.
When things aren't adding up in your life, start subtracting. - Erni
If it ain't right, change it.
Love yourself enough to take the actions required for your happiness. Love yourself enough to cut yourself loose from the ties of the drama filled past. Love yourself enough to make a move on. - Steve Maraboli
Move towards your future. Write your story.
Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle. - Jon Acuff
You do you. Your pace. Your life.
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. - Denis Waitley
Dream big. Don't limit yourself.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them. - Richard Dumb
Dreams are for chasing. Ready, set, go.
You can't change the direction of the wind, but you can adjust the sails to reach your destination. - Anonymous
Some things aren't up to us. Others are.
It doesn't matter where you are on the sick or healthy continuum. It just matters which direction you're headed. - Anonymous
Imagine your future. Create your truth.
She overcame everything that was meant to destroy her. - Sylvester McNutt III
Don’t let life destroy you. You are in charge.
It just occurred to me that many people are actually afraid to heal because their entire identity is centred around the trauma they've experienced. They have no idea who they are outside of trauma and that unknown can be terrifying. - Ebonee Davis
You are more than your trauma.
You're allowed to scream. You're allowed to cry, but do not give up. - Anonymous
Don’t give up. You're better than that.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it fate. - C.G. Jung
Be the master of your own life. You can.
Do not go gentle into that goodnight. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Dylan Thomas
One life. Live it.
Wrinkles mean you laughed, grey hair means you cared and scars mean you lived. - Becca Bean
Live boldly. Live passionately. Live.
You may think there is a lot wrong with you, but there is also a lot right with you. - Joel Osteen
Love yourself. You are fabulous.
We repeat what we don't repair. - Lisa Hillyer
Change what needs to be changed. You can.
I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not. - Kurt Cobain
Be who you are. Own it.
You don't have to have to have it figured out to move forward. - Anonymous
Take the plunge. The details will follow.
The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life. - John O’Donohue
Choose your perspective. Choose your path.
People always asked her what she was doing. Not fully knowing herself, she answered with a smile, "I'm going in the right direction." - M.C
Trust yourself. You've got this.
Someday we will find what we are looking for. Or maybe we won't. Maybe we will find something much greater than that. - Anonymous
Keep believing. The best will come.
Have the maturity to know sometimes silence is more powerful than having the last word. - Thema Bryant-Davis
Silence can be golden. Listen.
Be happy with what you have while working for what you want. - Helen Keller
Appreciate what is there. Strive for what is not.
A great future does not require a great past. - William Chapman
The future is what you make of it.
The experience of breathing provides the most continuously lived form for the ego's dual status of being both without and within the body. - Michael Eigen
Human being. Being human.
At times it can certainly feel as though happiness is just a collusion against the anguish of truth.
Face life. Face truth.
Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want. - Abraham Hicks
Worry less - it's possible with therapy.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything no matter how absurd in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious. - C.G. Jung
The only way out is through. Allow pain.
Later that night, I held an atlas in my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered, "Where does it hurt?" It answered, "Everywhere, everywhere, everywhere." - Warson Shire
Hurt is everywhere. Let's heal the world.
A certain darkness is needed to see the stars. - Osho, The Book of Secrets
Light is possible. Even in the dark.
To hold onto the past always creates suffering, even if it was wonderful. - Teal Scott
The present tense. It's a gift.
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic. - Irvin D. Yalom
Even tragedy can be integrated into life.
Depression is living in a body that wants to survive, with a mind that wants to die. - Anonymous
Depression: debilitating and paradoxical.
Dear Past, thank you for all the lessons. Dear Future, I'm ready. - Anonymous
Write your future. You can.
There have been so many times I have seen a man wanting to weep but instead beat his heart until it was unconscious. - Masculine
Allow pain in. Feel real.
Strive for progress, not perfection. - David Perlmutter
Perfection doesn't change the world. Progress does.
Before Alice got to Wonderland, she had to fall pretty hard down a pretty deep hole. - Anonymous
Feel the lows. The highs are waiting.
Sometimes, rock bottom is the perfect place to rebuild. - Anonymous
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Not to spoil the ending for you but everything's going to be okay. - Alfie Deyes
Keep on going. It'll be ok.
There are plenty of obstacles in your path. Do not allow yourself to become one of them. - Ralph Marston
Back yourself. You have to.
Don't confuse your path with your destination. Just because it's stormy now doesn't mean you aren't headed for sunshine. - Anonymous
Weather the storm. It won't last.
Worrying does not take away tomorrow's troubles, it takes away today's peace. - Randy Armstrong
Worry less. It makes life more pleasant.
If you don't believe in miracles, perhaps you've forgotten you are one. - Anonymous
You're a miracle. Believe in yourself.
Once you choose hope, anything is possible. - Christopher Reeve
Choose hope. You can.
Life is like the ocean. It can be calm or still, and rough or rigid, but in the end, it is always beautiful. - Anonymous
Ride the waves. They're yours to ride.
Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy. - Paulo Coelho
Happiness. Choose it.
You don't always need a plan. sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens. - Mandy Hale
Let go. Anything is possible.
HOPE: Hold on, pain ends. - Brenda Saxe
It will get better. It has to.
Life is like photography, we develop from the negatives. - Anonymous
Hard times make us grow.
Positive thinking evokes more energy, more initiative, more happiness. - Ziad K. Abdelnour
Seize joy. Think yourself happy.
Don’t tell someone to get over it. Help them to get through it. - Anonymous
The only way out is through. Pain is real.
Some of us are just trying to get through the day without falling apart. - Anonymous
You'll get through today. Promise.
It won't be easy but it will get better. - Stacey Hogg
Walk through the storm. You can.
Tough times don't define you. They refine you. - Carlos A. Rodriguez
Tough times end. You'll get beyond now.
Healing is hard but staying wounded is harder. - Anonymous
It's not easy to heal. But you can.
You cannot heal a lifetime of pain overnight. Be patient with yourself, it takes as long as it takes to rebuild yourself. - Anonymous
Healing takes time. Let it.
Healing is absolutely possible. - Anonymous
You will heal. In time.
Flowers grow back even after they are stepped on. And so will I. - Anonymous
Resilience. It's within you.
On particularly rough days, I'm sure I can't possibly endure, I like to remind myself that my track record for getting through bad days so far is 100% and that's pretty good. - Anonymous
You managed today. Well done.
So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are) but that's not what I actually needed. What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered. - John Green
Validate pain. It hurts.
The creative adult is the child who survived. - Erik Watts
You're surviving life. Well done.
The day the child realises that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them. He becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself; he becomes wise. - Alden Nowlan
Wisdom. It's a journey.
When you talk you are only repeating what you already know but when you listen, you may learn something new. - Dalai Lama
Listen hard. You will learn.
The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die. - Juliette Lewis
Keep going. We know it's hard.
There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons. - Stephen Chbosky
Love life. Laugh.
Give people high fives just for getting out of bed. Being a person is hard sometimes. - Kid President
Life isn't easy. Give yourself kudos.
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself. - Rumi
Strength. You have it within.
We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are. - Max Depree
Challenge yourself. You will grow.
And sometimes the scars stay serving as a reminder of what was almost lost yet reclaimed. - Anonymous
Reclaim you. Reclaim life.
Forget how much it hurts and try again. - Morley
Hope. It makes us human.
We don't remember days, we remember moments. - Cesare Pavese
Moments make a life. Make them count.
Discover new passions, even in the darkest days. - Anonymous
New life can always be found.
Here's to the nights we felt alive. - Anonymous
Live life alive.
Small steps may appear unimpressive, but don't be deceived. - Richelle E. Goodrich
One small step is all it takes.
When you really pay attention, everything is your teacher. - Ezra Bayda
Listen. Look. Learn.
Build. Destroy. Rebuild. I've mastered the art of bouncing back. Now to master the art of not having to. - Dau Voire
Less destroying, more building.
One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you can't change. -Anonymous
Accept what you cannot change.
Silence is a language too. - Jackie Hill Perry
Silence can be profound. Try it.
When someone is going through a storm, your silent presence is more powerful than a million empty words. - Thema Davis
Listen and support. Don't talk.
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