Thrapeutic Quotes & Sayings

But we need more than a broader understanding of what is a good society or a moral and political critique of the existing market fundamentalism engulfing American society, we also need to create new forms of solidarity, new and broad based social movements that move beyond the isolated and fractured politics of the current historical moment. — Henry Giroux

The cold logic of mid-twentieth-century atheism has now given way to an era of renewed 'spirituality,' but it is an awakening more thrapeutic than pious, more attuned to self-expression than self-denial. It is now fashionable to talk about God, though it is still deeply unfashionable to believe in him. — J. Mark Bertrand

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience. — Bill Johnson

The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time. — Wilkie Collins

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes. — Desiderius Erasmus

Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking. — Claude M. Bristol

Don't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making. — Sheryl Sandberg