Denial
Keith Ablow
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.”
“But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.”
“People react predictably, especially when they don't have time to think.”
“My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.”
“We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.”
“Relationships are never chance events.”
“...Some people hurt so much they can't take what they need, even when someone wants to give it to them. (106)”
“But that's the hardest part of healing.' What?' Realizing there's no one to hate.”
“The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.”
“God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is why sharing pain freely feels very much like love, and may be the same thing. (207)”
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Book Keywords:
psychotherapy, love, addiction, psychology, evil
