 People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. |
| Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you. |
| What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence. |
| If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it. |
| Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals. |
| Adults under threat feel like children. |
| In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it. |
| Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life. |
| Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues. |
| As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey. |
| Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact. |
| Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look. |
| I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light. |
| If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you. |
| Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy. Topics: Love Is |
| No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone. |
| Every day brings new choices. |
| Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. |
| Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. |
| Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young. |
