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1 " Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. "
― Karl A. Menninger
2 " The very word, “sin,” which seems to have disappeared, was once a proud word. It was once a strong word, an ominous and serious word. … But the word went away. It has almost disappeared — the word, along with the notion. Why? Doesn’t anyone sin anymore? Doesn’t anyone believe in sin? "
3 " Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. "
4 " What's done to children, they will do to society. "
5 " What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. "
6 " The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, a priori, abnormal. "
7 " It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one. "
8 " Any guy can love a thousand girlsBut only a rare guy can love one girl in a thousand ways "
9 " Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. "
10 " We want him to see that as a result of being parented by imperfect parents, he (she) chooses the wrong people for the right things, and chooses the right people for the wrong things. And most of all, they do not want to see it. "
11 " dementia "
― Karl A. Menninger , Psychoses Associated with Influenza (1919)
