Kenneth Rasmussen, PsyD, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist                                                  PSY23810

 The following are some quotes from thinkers which I believe convey the spirit inspiring what psychotherapy is all about. 

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star"

"The most common lie is that which one lies to oneself; lying to others is relatively an exception"

  - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Everyone is overidden with thoughts; that is why they have so much heartache and sorrow"

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it"

   - Rumi

"Psychotherapy, far from being any sort of proeedure that is administered from a place of detachment, is always a dialogue between two personal universes...A psychotherapeutic dialogue, if it is in any measure successful, always illuminates and transforms the worlds of both of the people involved...To see someone coming to the truth of his or her life is, inevitably, to be brought to the truth of one's one."

- George Atwood

" The curious paradox is that if I can accept myself, just as I am, then I can change"

'The good life is a process, not a state of being, it is a direction, not a destination"

 - Carl Rogers

"Most people do not want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility"

"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness"

"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water."

  - Sigmund Freud

"People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them"

"Know first who you are, then, addorn thyself accordingly"

  -Epictetus

"You will be as much as value to others as you have been to yourself".

- Cicero

"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

- Erasmus