Quotes About Therapeutic

Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche.

Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.

Knitting had done more than provide her with a living; it had soothed her soul through more struggles than she could count.

You have to understand before you can respect, and you have to respect before you can fully love. This is a tremendously spiritually therapeutic process, an emptying of myself so I can grow more in my love for others.

We'd found that these developmentally appropriate enrichment and therapeutic experiences had to be provided repeatedly and consistently in a respectful and caring manner.

rhythm is so important, and it's often overlooked as a therapeutic tool.

We want to provide therapeutic, healing interactions. Moderate, controllable, and predictable interactions.

As a youngster, when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something happened to me that hurt me, I discovered that writing the truth is really therapeutic and amazing.

The acting served as an outlet for my emotions for some time because I was doing it under the guise of someone else. And that can only be therapeutic up to a point until you truly deal with it and can express it to someone directly. Acting was a helpful outlet for me as a child. In some ways, I can say it saved my life.

It sounds a bit sad, but my new hobby is knitting. I love it. I find it really relaxing.

It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, say Smith and Denton, seems to be "colonizing many historical religious traditions and, almost without anyone noticing, converting believers in the old faiths to its alternative religious vision of divinely underwritten personal happiness and interpersonal niceness."23

Acting can work a peculiar magic on the actor ... it can cure you (at least for the length of a performance) of a whole variety of ailments. Migraine headaches, miserable colds or toothaches will suddenly disappear as you're up there going through your paces.

Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?

Music soothes you, especially when you write, sing or play an instrument. It really can be a cure for everything.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

There seems every reason to suppose that the therapeutic relationship is only one instance of interpersonal relations, and that the same lawfulness governs all such relationships. Thus it seems reasonable to hypothesize that if the parent creates with his child a psychological climate such as we have described, then the child will become more self-directing, socialized, and mature.

La verdad se parece demasiado a esos venenos que en pequeñas dosis resultan terapéuticos, pero, en grandes, matan.

People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds.

I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old . . . If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.

This might sound slightly ridiculous but I play the ukulele for at least an hour a day and I find something really blissful about it.

Marriage should not be viewed as a therapeutic step to solve problems such as homosexual inclinations or practices.

Music moves the deepest emotions, stirs buried memories, makes one forget yet creates new feelings and sometimes cures illness too.

The contemporary climate is therapeutic, not religious. People today hunger not for personal salvation, let alone for the restoration of an earlier golden age, but for the feeling, the momentary illusion, of personal well-being, health, and psychic security.