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“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.”

Heart May Earth Wish Secret Laughing Air Havens Ought Summer Rain Welcome Therapy Unconscious Summer Rain

Book:The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

“I'm lucky to be alive. It took three years of therapy to recover but I did it.”

Years Three Alive Lucky Therapy Three Years Lucky To Be Alive

Author:Kevin Sorbo

“If I told my parents that I was going to do that [ to be really counsel to a Prime Minister] when I was kid, they would probably put me in therapy.”

Ifs Kids Parent Ministers Therapy Prime Prime Minister

Author:Warren Mundine

“One of the leading theories of why electroconvulsive therapy is effective for most severe depressions is that it causes a loss of short-term memory - patients feel better because they can't remember why they were sad.”

Feels Remember Causes Term Memories Loss Theory Patient Therapy Feel Better Severe Short Term Short Term Memory

Book:Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

“We have the means right now to live long enough to live forever. Existing knowledge can be aggressively applied to dramatically slow down aging processes so we can still be in vital health when the more radical life-extending therapies from biotechnology and nanotechnology become available. But most baby boomers won't make it because they are unaware of the accelerating aging process in their bodies and the opportunity to intervene.”

“The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.”

Real Character Facts Interest Disease Approach Concerned Therapy Curse Treatment Neurosis Pathology Numinous

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“The great thing about writing is that...you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever arrests you because they're all make-believe. Then that way if you were actually ever driven to do any of those things, the pressure's off because you'd have already written them down. It's therapy.”

Ifs Way Writing Believe Can Do Written Paid Pressure Driven Great Things Therapy Make Believe Antisocial

Author:Stephen King

“I found English to be a sort of Thomas Hardy aversion therapy.”

Found Therapy Aversion Hardy

Author:Neil Gaiman

“What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.”

Writing Comedy Notes Tricks Therapy

Author:Lake Bell

“If I got a dollar every time someone told me to name my future kid 'Batmo' I'd almost have enough to pay for therapy for a kid named Batmo.”

Ifs Enough Kids Names Pay Dollars Therapy My Future

Author:Jessica Biel

“I see therapy as a substitute for friendship. I see it as a commentary on the impersonality of society that people have to pay someone to tell them their troubles.”

People Pay Trouble Therapy Substitutes Commentary Impersonality

Author:Jon Winokur

“Music is an art that goes well beyond science. Proof can be found in the huge amount of studies that have been carried out throughout the world based on music-therapy and the important results achieved.”

World Wells Has Beens Art Important Found Results Study Huge Amount Music Is Proof Therapy Music Therapy

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.”

Doe Helping Heard Shame Therapy Pretending Good Friend

Book:Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“Never diagnose a (client) until after their therapy is over.”

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Author:Carl Jung

“Mood reflects the biology of the brain. How you feel is affected by the chemicals in the brain, and these are the same chemicals that form the basis of mood-altering drugs. You may use yoga, meditation, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) or exercise to alter your mood, or revert to healthy eating, regular exercise and getting enough sleep.”

“I will say that going to these meetings and things, you know, I thought that, you know, be in a room with a bunch of drunk people. Ugh! I can't do that. And the truth is, it is the cheapest therapy that you could ever get. You're in a group of people that are from all walks of life, you know. Some guy that's got, you know, construction stuff on and dust still on, to a person that's the CEO of a company. And it's a common - it's a common abyss that you shared.”

People Knows Persons Stills I Can Guy Stuff Walks Rooms Common Company Groups Truth Is Meetings Bunch Drunk Dust Therapy Construction Ceo Abyss Walks Of Life Ugh Drunk People

Author:Lynda Carter

“When I was in therapy about two years ago, one day I noticed that I hadn't had any children. And I like children at a distance. I wondered if I'd like them up close. I wondered why I didn't have any. I wondered if it was a mistake, or if I'd done it on purpose, or what. And I noticed my therapist didn't have any children either. He had pictures of his cats on the wall. Framed.”

Ifs Years Children Two Done Purpose Mistake Wall One Day Years Ago Cat Distance Therapy Two Years Therapists Framed Two Years Ago

Book:Swimming to Cambodia

Source: Swimming to Cambodia

“Mounting a campaign against plutocracy makes as much sense to the typical Washington liberal as would circulating a petition against gravity. What our modernized liberal leaders offer is not confrontation but a kind of therapy for those flattened by the free-market hurricane: they counsel us to accept the inevitability of the situation.”

Kind Situation Leader Accepting Offers Campaigns Therapy Gravity Typical Free Market Hurricanes Confrontation Inevitability Petitions Plutocracy

Author:Thomas Frank

“Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.”

Ifs Mind Happened Baseball Therapy Diversion

Author:George Pataki

“I have heard people say, "I garden in lieu of therapy, but therapy would be cheaper." I believe gardening's worth the price since it's at least as effective in curing head and heart of what ails us.”

People Believe Heart Would Be I Believe Heard Garden Therapy Gardening Cheaper Head And Heart

Author:Janet Macunovich

“I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.”

Feels Wells Kind Used Very Good Therapy Trapped Session

Author:Vanilla Ice

“In Canada the cancer death rate is 16% higher than in the U.S. because of rationing of medical care. It takes an eight week wait to get radiation therapy for cancer.”

Care Waiting Week Higher Rate Cancer Eight Medical Therapy Canada Radiation Medical Care Cancer Death

Author:Dick Morris

“Our intention is not to create cloned human beings, but rather to make lifesaving therapies for a wide range of human disease conditions, including diabetes, strokes, cancer, AIDS, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.”

Humans Human Beings Conditions Disease Intention Including Cancer Wide Aids Range Therapy Disorder Strokes Diabetes Alzheimer Alzheimer's Parkinson Parkinson's

Author:Robert Lanza

“Among its many uses, dance/movement therapy aims to help people overcome trauma, often by nonverbally bringing the elements of the experience to the fore.”

People Helping Use Movement Elements Overcoming Aim Trauma Therapy

Author:Judith Lynne Hanna

“Dance therapy provides an outlet for energy and a safe and playful environment in which many areas of conflict can be identified and worked through, and appropriate adult roles and behavior tried out.”

Energy Roles Environment Safe Conflict Behavior Adults Areas Therapy Appropriate Outlets

Book:Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress

Source: Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress

“Danced healing rituals (in African village compounds, temple courtyards, dance-therapy studios, public theaters, and other social settings) reinvoke old traumas for exorcism and the transformation of fear, convince people that evil is gone or possible to dissipate, and reaffirm communal solidarity and a sense of well-being.”

Source: Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress

“Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.”

Ifs Should States Whole Winning Lost Paper Machines Cancer Cards Therapy Gambling Hospitals Bathroom Toilets Tobacco Gamble Gum Chewing Hog Toilet Paper Lost You Nevada Chewing Tobacco

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life - it's excruciating, you are forced to realise that your pain, the kind that makes you wake up afraid with your heart pounding, is really yours and not the result of somebody up in the sky. It's the result of your parents and your environment.”

Feels Heart Kind Moments Pain Parent Religious Results Environment Sky Wake Up Painful Myth Therapy Realising Our Environment Heart Pounding Painful Moments

Author:John Lennon

“What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy.”

Ends Laughing Comedy Therapy Shock Shock Therapy

Author:Lenny Bruce

“I always think that if you deal with extremely emotional, even melodramatic, subject matter, as I constantly do, the best way to handle those situations is at a sufficient remove. It's like a doctor and a nurse and a casualty situation. You can't help the patient and you can't help yourself by emoting. And I don't think cinema is intended for therapy, so I object also to that huge, massive manipulation which is perpetrated on the public.”

“All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say some things are beyond the wit of this man.”

Men Trying I Can Shows Interesting Subjects Honest Wit Being Honest Therapy Navigate

Author:Marcus Brigstocke

“Therapy is often a matter of tipping the first domino.”

Firsts Matter Therapy Tipping

Book:The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy

Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy

“People do not come into therapy to change their past but their future.”

People Past Therapy

Author:Milton H. Erickson

“The simple combination of letters and sounds you select as a name for your baby can result in a life of carefree coolness or decades of expensive therapy. Hi, I'm Jake versus Hi, I'm... Tapioca”

Names Sound Simple Results Baby Letters Decades Combination Therapy Expensive Versus Select Carefree Jake Coolness

Author:Paul Reiser

“I'm now unemployed. It's a weird feeling with no work, but at least there's still golf. Standup comedy is like my core, it's what I do. But I want to be a pro golfer. It's a love/hate relationship with golf. I can come away feeling so serene, and yet, it's the thing that I can let get to me to throw a club and say curses that don't even exist. I'm obsessed with something that won't let me master it. I don't know. I need therapy.”

“I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not share it, I'm always writing songs or coming up with melodic lines on piano or guitar. It's therapy. It's always happening.”

Writing Might Artist Song Lines Share Happenings Guitar Therapy Piano Visuals Writing Songs Visual Art Sketching Visual Artist

Author:Erykah Badu

“When you are a screwed up person, you have a responsibility to keep your normal friends from getting walked on. 'Cos, how bad could you screw that up ? And don't say, Well, you could cause someone six months of physical therapy. 'Cos, hey, lots of times, those exercise take places in pools and nylon tents with little plastic balls. Fun places like that. And, she gets to park up really close for a while. Ha ha, oh, I'm the bad guy.”

Wells Littles Persons Guy Fun Causes Responsibility Months Exercise Normal Six Balls Hey Therapy Parks Pool Plastic Screws Six Months Bad Guys Tents Screwed Up Physical Therapy Nylon

Author:Christopher Titus

“No one has ever thought this: Now that I'm out of therapy and have fixed my mental problems, I think I want to be a ventriloquist.”

Thinking Want Problem Therapy Fixed

Author:Dana Gould

“I also had a stuttering problem. In a Mexican home they don't give you speech therapy; they don't even know what speech therapy is. They just get the belt. If there's a parrot in the house, you better talk better than the parrot.”

Ifs Knows Giving Problem Home House Speech Therapy Belts Mexican Parrots Stuttering Speech Therapy

Author:Felipe Esparza

“Our marriage, like many others, has had its ups and its downs. It took a lot of work and a whole lot of therapy to get to a place where I could forgive Anthony. It was not an easy choice in any way. But I made the decision that it was worth staying in this marriage. That was a decision I made for me, for our son and for our family.”

Way Made Whole Choices Easy Decision Son Forgiving Therapy Our Family Staying

Author:Huma Abedin

“You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.”

Thinking Knows Want Years Has Beens Lasts Band Fighter Therapy Foo Fighters

Author:Dave Grohl

“The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.”

Humans Suffering Offers Empty Philosopher Vain Therapy Human Suffering

Author:Epicurus

“If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.”

Ifs Way Want Writing Trying Stories Problem Audience Pieces Draws Entertainment Supposed To Be Relate Therapy

Author:Matt Damon

“I wondered if there was a way to teach people how to use their imaginations in prayer and worship. So I began reading books on cognitive therapy and neuroscience and started studying the devotional traditions of the church.”

People Ifs Way Book Use Reading Imagination Church Prayer Teach Study Worship Tradition Therapy Reading Books Neuroscience Cognitive Devotional Cognitive Therapy

Author:Gregory A. Boyd

“I think it's therapeutic when we play. It's just like therapy.”

Thinking Play Therapy Therapeutic

Author:Sam McCandless

“We don't have a particular plan. We just do what we do. This is the only way we know how to do it. We make the music that moves us. We use it as therapy. The songs are cathartic. They're ways of dealing with life experiences and the world around you. It's meant to be as a release for us as it is for other people.”

People Knows World Way Use Moving Song Know How Plans Particular Release Therapy Meant To Be Life Experience Cathartic Dealing With Life

Author:David Draiman

“We have signed with Artemis Records. Originally they were our distributor for 'Group Therapy'. My former manager (Chip Quigley) started a record label (Recon Records) and had Artemis Records as their distributor. Unfortunately, the way the label was run meant that it didn't turn out the way that we thought it was going to be. We simply got into something that was different to what we initially thought”

Way Different Running Turns Records Groups Former Managers Labels Therapy Chips Artemis Record Labels Distributors Group Therapy

Author:Brian Ebejer

“The irony is that I don't think we took a step backwards to make 'Group Therapy'. I think we took a step forward because it's a lot more complicated to make that kind of album. I think that album was far more produced than 'American Apathy', and it had a lot more harmony vocals and lots of intricate parts musically speaking.”

Thinking Kind Steps Groups Harmony Albums Complicated Irony Therapy Apathy Backwards Vocal Intricate Steps Forward Group Therapy

Author:Brian Ebejer

“I started in the late 70s, beginning of the 80s, and I think I started to sing and make music as a therapy for myself; I never planned to be an artist; sometimes when I think about it it's crazy that I'm here, and I'm touring, and I'm doing what I'm doing.”

Thinking Sometimes Artist Crazy Late Therapy 80s Touring

Author:Mari Boine

“I did some years of therapy and self-realization, and I just move and think at a slower pace - doesn't make me sound very smart! But really not reacting and doing more listening than talking, and letting people say what they need to say, and then maybe not saying anything at all.”

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Author:Natalie Maines

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