When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us. - M. Scott Peck

A full life will be full of pain. But the only alternative is not to live fully or not to live at all.

And it is essential that therapists arrive at this knowledge, for the world view of patients is always an essential part of their problems, and a correction in their world view is necessary for their cure. So I say to those I supervise: “Find out your patients’ religions even if they say they don’t have any.

To the child, abandonment by its parents is the equivalent of death.