Quotes by Sheldon B. Kopp

Sheldon B. Kopp

Again and again I find that my own inner counselor, my secret dreaming self, is not only wise and helpful but usually amusing as well.

Dream

Self

Wise

All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7)

Courage

Important

Self

All significant battles are fought within self.

Battle

Self

Significant

Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth.

May

Men

Moon

And so, it is not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he really wants is to remain the same and to get the therapist to make him feel better. (4)

Feel Better

Patient

Want

But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else. Slowly, she learned that each of us grown-ups has as much and as little power as the other, and that we had best learn to take care of ourselves.(83)

Care

Reality

Strong

Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days.

Dream

Heart

Voice

Each of us is ultimately alone.

Each person’s only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and becoming who he or she really is.

Becoming

Knowing Who You Are

Personality

Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what’s happening head-on all of the time.

Dirty

Dirty Words

Faces

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Absurd

Acceptance

Angel

Battle

Becoming

Bread Of Life

Brother

Cages

Care

Chance

Choose Life

Chosen

Confused

Cost

Courage

Crazy

Creative

Culture

Cups

Destructiveness

Development

Dirty

Dirty Words

Doe

Domestic Violence

Dream

Effort

Eggs

Emotional

Enough

Examining

Eye

Faces

Failing

Father

Fear

Feel Better

Feelings

Fool

Fun

Giving

Giving Up

Groups

Heart

Ideas

Imagination

Important

Insecurity

Inspirational

Interpretation

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Quotes by Sheldon B. Kopp

Sheldon B. Kopp

Again and again I find that my own inner counselor, my secret dreaming self, is not only wise and helpful but usually amusing as well.

All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7)

All significant battles are fought within self.

Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth.

And so, it is not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he really wants is to remain the same and to get the therapist to make him feel better. (4)

But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else. Slowly, she learned that each of us grown-ups has as much and as little power as the other, and that we had best learn to take care of ourselves.(83)

Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days.

Each of us is ultimately alone.

Each person’s only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and becoming who he or she really is.

Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what’s happening head-on all of the time.

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