![The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but to make people aware of the depths of possibility in their hearts and lives; help them remove the barriers that keep them from being the people they were meant to be.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-idea-of-therapy-isnt-to-give-people-answers-or-lead-their-bark-of-longing.jpg)
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inspirational life simple
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
inspirational heart two
I'm not lookin' for someone who can save me. Life rafts might keep you afloat but they rarely get you anywhere and I've got places I wanna go. So break me in two, peel back my rib cage and cover every page of my heart with love poems you will burn someday. Andrea Gibson
inspirational sexy night
That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.
inspirational baby fall
Baby, I have no idea how this will end. Maybe the equator will fall like a hula hoop from the earth's hips and our mouths will freeze mid-kiss on our 80th anniversary or maybe tomorrow my absolute insanity combined with the absolute obstacle course of your communication skills will leave us like a love letter in a landfill. But whatever, however, whenever this ends I want you to know that right now, I love you forever.
inspirational thanksgiving thankful
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. Aesop
inspirational asks
Ask the gods nothing excessive. Aeschylus
inspirational motivational time
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. Abraham Maslow
inspirational basketball peace
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Abraham Lincoln
inspirational motivational leadership
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
heart first-love thinking
Music does have a very special place in my heart. I enjoy it very much. I suppose it is my first love and I do a lot of it. It seems to be when you are making a project it inspires you sometimes to jot down something that you think fits the situation. Clint Eastwood
heart artist broken
A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world... Alice Walker
heart strife endless
The traveling heart went free / With endless streams; that strife was stopped; / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy. Alice Meynell
heart fate rivers
I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was nothing to search for, nothing to force. I didn't understand that even when we can't control our fate, we alone have the last say in matters of the heart. We can give it freely, even in the worst of times, even when it isn't returned. Alice Hoffman
heart hands racing
Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then hooped his fingers through hers. Gretel looked up at him, so startled she might as well have been shot. 'I just wanted to wake you up', he said. Which is exactly what he did. One look at him and her heart was racing. One look, and whatever had been before was all over.
heart soul gone
Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong. Alice Childress
heart men rooms
It was never in my heart to slight any man, but only that man should be kept in his place and not sit in the room of God. Anne Hutchinson
heart thinking blood
Once I was lost in a forest. I was so afraid. My blood pounded in my chest and I knew my heart's strength would soon be exhausted. I saved myself without thinking. I grasped the two syllables closest to me, and replaced my heartbeat with your name. Anne Michaels
heart gone kind
I've always kind of gone with my heart. Anne Heche
ideas people important
In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent. Charles Kettering
ideas common-sense reform
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues. Andrew Mellon
ideas cinema translate
Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. David Lynch
ideas people bars
It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio. Anatole France
ideas two want
Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't. Anne Dudley
ideas training way
In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer. Anne Fortier
ideas feelings would-be
If I were to have any sort of solid idea about which moments were God's manifestations, they would be those moments where one has practically nothing to do with what's going on. It's one of the best feelings in the world. Anjelica Huston
ideas entrepreneur three
Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen. Anita Roddick
ideas knowing people
I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare. Andrew Vachss