Mearns Quotes & Sayings

As I was sitting in my chair,
I knew the bottom wasn't there,
Nor legs nor back, but I just sat,
Ignoring little things like that. — Hughes Mearns

In our hearts we know that with a different fate, we, too, could be in the ranks of the dispossessed, stripped of our identities and belonging nowhere. The refugee becomes a sinister symbol of what can quickly happen once personhood is denied and people are transformed into disposable units of contemptible impediments to the greed or power-mongering of others. — Dave Mearns

Susan Carol had arrived at the stadium with Bobby Kelleher and Tamara Mearns — John Feinstein

Self-acceptance should not be confused with an over-vaulting aggrandisement of self over others. That individual's exaggerated positive view of self relies upon a comparison with others - they sustain their own positive self-view, relatively, by maintaining a negative view of others. — Dave Mearns

Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be taught; indeed, it cannot even be summoned; it can only be permitted. — William Hughes Mearns

What is shared in common is infinitely more significant than what apparently divides. — Dave Mearns

Criticism hurts most because it comes from another person and abuse is most damaging when it comes from someone who should love us. — Dave Mearns

The way to make the giving a free vote safe for a totalitarian capitalist regime is simple - make all political parties the same! — Dave Mearns

The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development. — Dave Mearns

You are a good counter...

T-Man (......You used the F word 31 times.......) — Deyth Banger

You completely rediscovered & relived everything to do with wildlife. — Terri Irwin

Poetry is when you talk to yourself. — William Hughes Mearns

Her kitchen chairs were equipales that took you in like a hug, which I needed. — Barbara Kingsolver

You have something to say. Something of your very own. Try to say it. Don't be ashamed of any real thought or feeling you have. Don't undervalue it. Don't let the fear of others prevent you from saying it ... You have something to say, something that no one else in the world has said in just your way of saying it. — William Hughes Mearns

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters. — Criss Jami

It matters not that giants of tribulation torment you. Your prayerful access to help is just as real as when David battled his Goliath. see 1 Samuel 17. — Russell M. Nelson

Part of the discipline of the person-centred approach is not to make assumptions about the client's appropriate process, but to follow the process laid out by the client. — Dave Mearns

I'm not deciding what the artist is going to write about because it's the artist. They're gonna have to sing that song for the rest of their life. When they're old and they're 80 and they have their show in Vegas, they're gonna have to sing that song for the rest of their life. — Benny Blanco

People were surprised in the 1990s when multinationals began to contribute heavily to New Labour, favoured even above the Conservative Party. But this move of Labour to New Labour was much more important to capitalism than simply having one party to support, for if you can have both big parties you have achieved the ultimate switch from a capitalist democracy to a totalitarian capitalist democracy, such as was accomplished in the USA many years previously. — Dave Mearns

Development is not about learning how to counsel but about becoming the kind of person who can counsel. — Dave Mearns

As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wan't there
He wasn't there again today
Oh I wish he'd go away! — William Hughes Mearns

I don't want to hang on and Cry over something so little, Like a springtime illusion that'll disappear after I wake up — Lee Hyori

Ideas more than once have prevailed against naked power. Guns and aircraft alone do not make a state powerful. Unless force is backed up by the will of the great body of people it loses its meaning. — Dwight D. Eisenhower