Quotes from Keith Ablow

There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)

God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces.

Everything terrible is something that needs our love. - Rilke (231)

Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children… it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.

You've got to think of every talent you have, every gift you could give the world around you. And you've got to take the chance of giving it. (246)

Loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment.

Watching her, he saw again how she teetered between adolescence and adulthood, with a raw sensuality that had to deposit her in a kind of no-man's land--too much a woman for boys her own age, too young for fully adult men.

the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)

I shook my head at all the things that can happen to break a man as he grows up and away from the pure potential of infancy, all the things that had fractured inside me. And I prayed silently that this infant, born into chaos, might meet with kindness, experience joy and find passion in life. Every one of us ought to be able to count on that much. (308)

Nothing overdone, nothing racy, which made her all the more alluring.

Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

Everyone - rich or poor, black or white, educated or not - is in emotional turmoil, in some sort of pain. (51)

Woody Allen once said that 90 percent of life is about showing up. Ninety percent of healing people in psychological pain is shutting up - at least long enough to let them bleed the truth. That sounds easy, but it isn't. (68)

He started to feel for himself, which is the only way to start feeling for others. (24)

Maybe learning to be human was about learning to live in pain, not trying to figure out how to live pain-free. (156)

Like most of the connections that explain the pain in our hearts, he couldn't bring it to mind. He couldn't see the truth because it was too big and it was right in front of him.

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

It is a terrible and exquisitely human irony that children inadequately nurtured almost never give up on the breast. The thirst for love from a mother or father who cannot provide it is seemingly unquenchable. I have treated sixty- and seventy-year-old business executives, politicians, and physicians still desperate for approval from shriveled, emotionally barren men and women in their eighties and nineties. (257)

Kalbini ve akl?n? seksle bast?rarak bu mücadeleden kaç?nabilece?ini san?yorsun. Gerçek varl???ndan, seni usand?ran sorudan kaç?nabilmek için avc?y? seçtin. Gecenin en karanl?k an?nda, özünde, sen bir iyile?tirici misin yoksa avc? m?, benim doktorum musun yoksa infaz memurum mu?

Let yourself feel the pain you've been avoiding, and you will become powerful in equal measure.

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I think men should be able to veto women's abortions if they're willing to care for the child after it's born.

Relationships are never chance events.