Many of the world's great discoveries have been made by accident; by people who were imaginative enough to see the potential and courageous enough to investigate the possibilities.
. . . Karen Dougherty

• It has often been noted that most, if not all, problems brought to therapists are issues of love. It makes sense that the cure is also love.
  --Thomas Moore

• It takes more than a sudden leap to change a life. It takes a conscious act, a decision to take our life into our hands.
  --Mildred Newman

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child...No slave was ever so much the property of his master as the child is of his parent...Never were the rights of man ever so disregarded as in the case of the child...

--Maria Montessori

To the extent you hide your feelings, you are alienated from yourself and others. And loneliness is proportional.

--Dorothy Briggs--

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

--R.D. Laing--

Sometimes we reach the boiling point before we realize that the stove is on.

Become aware of your feelings - keep your eye on the stove.

--Karen Dougherty--

"If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at all."

--Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving--

All feelings are transient.

Feelings are like spring breezes that pass through one's day. The chill they bring won't last forever.

--Karen Dougherty--

"I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details."

--Albert Einstein--

Underneath every feeling of anger is an undercurrent of fear.

By recognizing the fear you will be better able to deal with the anger.

--Karen Dougherty--