British Association of Psychotherapists - The BAP is a leading UK national association for Jungian analytic therapy and psychoanalytic, child and adolescent psychotherapy as well as training.
Richard Marshall - Clinical psychologist offers advice for people experiencing psychological problems.
Mind Train - Services offered by organisation of psychologists.
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Psychology Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Psychology
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Psychology Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Psychology
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Psychology The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Psychology
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Psychology A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Psychology
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Psychology "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Psychology
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Psychology "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Psychology
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Psychology Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Psychology
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Psychology "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Psychology
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Psychology "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Psychology
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Psychology Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Psychology
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Psychology An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Psychology
