Therapy Quotes

No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.

I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.

In real life, I try to be honest but not overshare. There are people that turn every conversation into a therapy session and you want to start charging them.

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I think I sought out the drama. That's why I like doing what I do.

It amazes me how much of what passes for knowledge in cancer therapy turns out to be incomplete, inadequate, and anecdotal.

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

I think the noblest thing you can do is ask for help. And I mean that about therapy. I mean that about dieting.

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

I don't know if I would call it therapy, but filmmaking is really the only thing I know how to do. For me, making movies is a way to bring on change for myself, and I really enjoy that part.

Some of these people need ten years of therapy - ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

I talk about therapy a lot because I love therapy. It has just enriched my life.

People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get back on that ride.

Just putting my uniform on keeps me going. Being able to get out there keeps me going. That's the best therapy.

Yoga calms me down. It's a therapy session, a workout and meditation all at the same time!

I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.

Music isn’t just music, it’s therapy.

Dressing up is like therapy; I feel better in myself when I've made an effort.

Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony, or, as we call them these days, "getting in touch with your sexuality," "raising your self-esteem," "relaxation therapy," and "being a recovered bulimic."

You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons.

After ten years in therapy, my psychologist told me something very touching, he said, “no hablo ingles.”

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer but never judge it.

I found music to be the therapy of choice.

Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.

It's been like therapy to be able to play music and not embarrass my children too much. They've come to a bunch of the shows. It's kind of cool. I'm glad they like it.

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

Jiu-Jitsu is my therapy, my passion, my life.

Receiving the Holy Ghost is the therapy which effects forgiveness and heals the sin-sick soul.

Millions of Americans every year depend upon medical imaging exams to diagnose disease and detect injury, and thousands more rely on radiation therapy to treat and cure their cancers.

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic.

What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy.

Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.

Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying!

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.

My feeling on therapy is it's a luxury, and if you're fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that's fortunate and you should go for it.

I believe therapy can be done more rapidly. I'm into your finding the source of what's making you think and feel the way you do and shifting it quickly.

You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.

The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards.

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father and she hung up the phone on me.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.