Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law. Karl A. Menninger More Quotes by Karl A. Menninger More Quotes From Karl A. Menninger Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. Karl A. Menninger happy-valentines-dayhelping-otherslove When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him. In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the world sees and it naturally misunderstands them. It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one. Karl A. Menninger fightingstruggleswim Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him. Karl A. Menninger trackhouselife What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. Karl A. Menninger appreciationteacherretirement Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Karl A. Menninger musicinspirationalfriendship What's done to children, they will do to society. Karl A. Menninger familyhappinesslove The voice of the intelligence is soft and weak, said Freud. It is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is hissed away by hate, and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. Karl A. Menninger angerhateignorance Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us. Karl A. Menninger wellsrefuselove-you People repeat in adult life emotions they experience in childhood. Many of the people whom I spent the last 30 or 40 years treating at so much per minute wouldn't have needed any treatment at all if they had had the right care as children. Karl A. Menninger childrenpeopleyears Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken. Karl A. Menninger takenhealinglove The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal. Karl A. Menninger ignoranceaveragethinking It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one. Karl A. Menninger fisheshappeningshooked One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways. Karl A. Menninger differentwisdomwise Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one. Karl A. Menninger bipolarhealththree One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him. Karl A. Menninger doelovefall Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out. Karl A. Menninger anxietyfearinspirational To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it. Karl A. Menninger know-thyselfinstinctmean Attitudes are much more important than facts. Karl A. Menninger importantattitudefacts Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa. Karl A. Menninger acceptancelove-youlove-is The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius. Karl A. Menninger listeningwantmoving
