Quotes About Progress

Before successful therapy, it's the same damn thing over and over. After successful therapy, it's one damn thing after another.

at a life stage when everyone else is moving forward; the thirties are a decade of building the foundation of the future. He's out of sync with his peers, and in his own way, in his own grief, he probably feels completely alone.

Unfortunately, sometimes people leave just as their symptoms lift, not realizing (or perhaps knowing all too well) that the work is just beginning and that staying will require them to work even harder.

Until you tell me what's really on your mind, you'll stay stuck exactly where you are.

Maybe our pasts don't define us but inform us.

far better that [a patient make progress but] forget what we talked about than the opposite possibility (a more popular choice for patients)—to remember precisely what was talked about but to remain unchanged.

think of something else Wendell once said: "The nature of life is change and the nature of people is to resist change." It was a paraphrase of something he'd read that had resonated with him both personally and as a therapist, he told me, because it was a theme that informed nearly every person's struggles

As the late psychotherapist Kohn Weakland famously said, "Before successful therapy, it's the same damn thing over and over. After successful therapy, it's one dame thing after another.

We can't have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the

Before successful therapy, it's the same damn thing over and over.

If you go through life picking and choosing, if you don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good,

Einstein: "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

FAILURE IS PART OF BEING HUMAN.

Stage 1: Pre-contemplation Stage 2: Contemplation Stage 3: Preparation Stage 4: Action Stage 5: Maintenance

The only way out is through." The only way to get to the other side of the tunnel is to go through it, not around

There's a popular saying, a paraphrase from a Robert Frost poem: "The only way out is through." The only way to get to the other side of the tunnel is to go through it, not around it. But I can't even picture the entrance right now.

As the late psychotherapist John Weakland famously said, "Before successful therapy, it's the same damn thing over and over. After

she didn't want to just add things to her bucket list; she wanted to cross things off too.

A spider reaches the liberty of space by means of its own thread.

Second chances do come your way. Like trains, they arrive and depart regularly. Recognizing the ones that matter is the trick.

Take the next little step-the smaller you make it, the more likely you'll take it..

How are you? How was your flight? He hit the Send button without recognizing that in writing to her he was taking a step back from his life as he knew it and into the unknown future, for one cannot embark upon the new without giving up something in return.

must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

God is working on two fronts all the time. As He works to transform society, He works to transform the transformers!