Dave Mearns Quotes

#1. Once again I had to put myself in a vulnerable position in order to become stronger.

Cedric Villani

#2. Development is not about learning how to counsel but about becoming the kind of person who can counsel.

Dave Mearns

#3. Self-acceptance should not be confused with an over-vaulting aggrandisement of self over others. That individual's exaggerated positive view of self relies upon a comparison with others - they sustain their own positive self-view, relatively, by maintaining a negative view of others.

Dave Mearns

#4. Part of the discipline of the person-centred approach is not to make assumptions about the client's appropriate process, but to follow the process laid out by the client.

Dave Mearns

#5. What is shared in common is infinitely more significant than what apparently divides.

Dave Mearns

#6. The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.

Bertrand Russell

#7. The KGB still killed people, the KGB would not execute its last prisoner until the final days of its existence in 1991, but by the eighties a termination required paperwork and signatures and a post-action review.

Tom Clancy

#8. And no cheating, Lady." he said.
"But who could cheat Fate?" she asked. He shrugged."No-one. Yet everyone tries.

Terry Pratchett

#9. Criticism hurts most because it comes from another person and abuse is most damaging when it comes from someone who should love us.

Dave Mearns

#10. The way to make the giving a free vote safe for a totalitarian capitalist regime is simple - make all political parties the same!

Dave Mearns

#11. Miss Carson, you need to step outside and slap me again. The side you hit is mostly dead. You need to hit the other side of my face so I can feel it like I should.

Lorraine Heath

#12. I am in favor of increased communication and cooperation between countries, but it is more important that each country becomes responsible for its own actions, its own communities, its own economies, before starting to integrate in large regional or global supranational organizations.

David Korten

#13. No noble opportunity is small. Mind small opportunities with noble traits, though they may seem quite uncanny at first sight; in the mind, you shall wonder!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#14. The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again.

Billy Campbell

#15. When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#16. The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development.

Dave Mearns

#17. A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.

Tristan Jones