How often we make circumstances our prison and other people our jailers.
- Sheldon Kopp

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
—Ernest Hemingway

To be free, first, you must choose freedom. Then the hard work begins. - Sheldon Kopp

To be free, first, you must choose freedom. Then the hard work begins.
- Sheldon Kopp

The unexaminded life is not worth living.
- Socrates

Though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he really wants is to remain the same . . . (but) to feel better. He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.
—Sheldon Kopp