Karl A. Menninger

“Mental health is the adjustment of human beings to the world and to each other with a maximum of effectiveness and happiness.”

“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”

“Attitudes are more important than facts.”

“Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.”

“Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.”

“Money-giving is a very good criterion of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.”

“Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.”

“It is a curious paradox that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

“The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.”

“Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”

“One does not fall 'in' or 'out' of love. One grows in love.”

“The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of the fear.”

“What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.”

“Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.”