“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and… try to love the questions themselves…. The point is, to live everything. Live the questions.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke

“One of the ways we know we’re magical people is by how much we manage to do with broken hearts.”
—Jericho Brown

“Nothing human is alien to me.”
—Terence

“Psychodynamic treatment is evidence-based…. It’s more effective than other treatments when it comes to personality and relationship issues, and it’s the only one shown to offer enduring results.”
—Dr. Linda Michaels

“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”
—Alfred Adler

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
—Maya Angelou

“A very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”
—Simone Weil

“There are two great events in one’s life. One is being born, and the other is knowing why.”
—Wayne Shorter

“What distinguishes us from one another is our dreams.”
—Joseph Epstein

“We must acquiesce to our experience and our gift to transform experience into meaning and value.… To write one’s life is to live it twice, and the second living is both spiritual and historical.”
—Patricia Hampl

“Healing involves discomfort—but so does refusing to heal. And, over time, refusing to heal is always more painful.”
—Resmaa Menakem

“I can only become who I am by freeing myself of chains that imprison me.”
—Neville Symington

“Held within the symptoms of trauma are the very energies, potentials, and resources necessary for their constructive transformation.”
—Peter Levine

“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”
—Rumi

“Drip by drip, the jar is filled.”
—The Buddha

“I am still every age that I have been.”
—Madeleine L’Engle

“The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.”
—Irvin Yalom

“We are constantly invited to be what we are.”
—Henry David Thoreau

“Know thyself.”
—Apollo

“So what is our aim? It is a meeting with the fabric of life, no more and no less.”
—Peter Brook