Countertherapeutic Quotes & Sayings

The heart is like a bird: love as its head and its two wings are hope and fear. — Ibn Al-Qayyim Al-Jawzziya

No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. — Horace

You're my problem! You're my solution! You're my my high; you're my low! You're my muse; you're my pain! It's you. Everything! Everything I do and think and breathe is you! — Jacinta Howard

Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it — Zhuangzi

Switches among identities occur in response to changes in emotional state or to environmental demands, resulting in another identity emerging to assume control. Because different identities have different roles, experiences, emotions, memories, and beliefs, the therapist is constantly contending with their competing points of view. Helping the identities to be aware of one another as legitimate parts of the self and to negotiate and resolve their conflicts is at the very core of the therapeutic process. It is countertherapeutic for the therapist to treat any alternate identity as if it were more "real" or more important than any other.

Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults, Third Revision — James A. Chu

I move onward, through the colors and cheers and music, floating into my future, and it is a clear, open space that stretches wider that the sky and higher than the Andes. — Laura Resau

~ Inspiration comes from the life lessons we view in everyday life. Everyone has the ability to be an
inspiration.
~ Motivation is the drive to be more than ordinary.
Motivate your dreams to become reality.
~If your dreams are never realized, they will only exist as fantasy. — D'Juana L. Manuel-Smith

But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.
-Ying Ying — Amy Tan

The Universe does not compensate individuals based on the activity of work, but on the activity of consciousness. — John Randolph Price

Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly. — Harry Browne

He did not know he could not fly, so he did. — Guy Clark

All the things I've read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest book in the world. — Michael Jackson

Does the U.S. attorney know you spend your workdays listening to office gossip?"
Jack grinned in satisfaction. "The U.S. attorney is thrilled that there's finally someone else for this
office to gossip about. — Julie James

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up. — Paula McLain

Love one another and you will be happy, it is as simple and as difficult as that — Michael Leunig