Harry Stack Sullivan

“We are all much more simply human than otherwise.”

“Personality is the relatively enduring pattern of recurrent interpersonal situations which characterize a human life.”

“A personality can never be isolated from the complex of interpersonal relations in which the person lives and has his being.”

“Love begins when a person feels another person's needs to be as important as his own.”

“It is a rare person who can take care of hearts while also taking care of business.”

“Anxiety is the experience of tension that results from the real or imaginary threats to one's security.”

“Maturity is the ability to outgrow authors, and the wisdom to discover them.”

“The self-system is a security system; it is anti-anxiety system.”

“If you have to do with a person, you have to do with a person who has been living a life.”

“It's a wonder we don't all go crazy.”

“There is no such thing as a single individual. We are all enmeshed in a network of relationships.”

“The satisfaction of lust requires a partner, and the pattern of lust is not in itself completely satisfying.”