Quotable Quotes

My clients know well I love a good quote. Quotes are a way to condense information into a sentence or two, so you can remember it. This makes quotes an excellent way to be a caring parent to yourself. When a challenging situation arises, and you’re trying to learn a new way of thinking and feeling about a situation, a quote is a fast and easy way to remember.

The intent behind today's post is to provide all of the quotable quotes I use in sessions, all in one place, so my clients can find them when they need them. In a few cases, I’ve included brief notes in [brackets], to provide additional clarity. And I’ve done my best to give credit where credit’s due. In some cases, the originator of the quote is unknown, but I’ve provided the source where I learned the quote. Let's kick it off with my all-time favorite quote:

• Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. ~ attributed to Theodore Roosevelt

• Believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear. ~ Benjamin Franklin

• Talk is cheap, it takes money to buy whiskey. ~ Unknown

• Just as in arithmetic, you can’t solve a problem with an incomplete data set. ~ Donna Acosta

• This is happening to me personally, but not because of me personally. ~ Donna Acosta

• I give up what I want now, for what I want most. ~ Donna Acosta (paraphrase of Neal A. Maxwell)

• When you're right, you don't need to be defensive. ~ Donna Acosta

• Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. ~ Unknown

• The truth is like a lion. You don't need to defend it -- just set it free. It will defend itself. ~ St. Augustine

• Dead Last beats Didn’t Finish, which beats Didn’t Start. ~ Unknown

• He who never made a mistake never made anything. ~ Albert Einstein

• Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable. ~ David Augsburger

• The party of the least interest is the party of the greatest power. ~ Sarah Bird

• There is no hierarchy of suffering [suffering is perception, which cannot be compared]. ~ Sarah Bird

• True strength is delicate. ~ Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

• He who controls others may be powerful, but he who controls himself is mightier still. ~ Lao Tzu

• Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Am I struggling, or am I despairing? ~ Unknown

• Is this uncomfortable, or unbearable? ~ Unknown

• How can I consider this an opportunity—something that is happening for me, not to me? ~ Unknown

• Between what is meant but not said, and what is said but not meant, most of love is lost. ~ Rumi

• Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me. [self-esteem] ~ Zora Neale Thurston

• I’ve missed more than 3,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot, and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. [self-concept] ~ Michael Jordan

• The question isn’t should you or shouldn’t you, but rather, will you or won’t you? ~ Unknown

• The people who are in therapy are there because the people who need therapy won’t go. ~ Unknown

You may find some of these quotes confusing, or even uncomfortable. If that's the case, I encourage you to consider working with a therapist who can help you learn to be a caring parent to yourself. You deserve to thrive!

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