Janov Quotes

#1. Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

William James

#2. want the lies to end. I pull my gun from my purse and point it at him. "Who are you to me, Kayden? Who am I?" from Denial

Lisa Renee Jones

#3. With that right person, you can have a late-night conversation at any time of the day.

David Levithan

#4. He'd meant well, or at least he hadn't meant ill. He'd never wanted to hurt anyone, not seriously, not in real space-time. Fantasies didn't count. It

Margaret Atwood

#5. You could pay Arthur Janov to teach you to scream about history, or you could learn prayer or a mantra, or you could write your life down and hope to make peace with it, write it down, or paint it, or turn it into improvisational theater, but that was the best you could probably do. You were stuck.

Rick Moody

#6. I guess I'm just afraid of whats going to happen. Because you can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.

Adam Rapp

#7. I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#8. Even gang members imagine a future that doesn't include gangs.

Greg Boyle

#9. How do rich people think and act?

T. Harv Eker

#10. I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#11. But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.

Merton Miller

#12. My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?

Henny Youngman

#13. Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.

John Hancock

#14. Give a child a good birth (if at all possible, no drugs to the mother)=1
and a good first three years, especially a good first three months, and a major part of the job of child rearing is done.

Arthur Janov

#15. I can take criticism. Or at least, I can if you put it nicely.

Kerstin Gier

#16. At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness.

John Lennon

#17. The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. The bargain was this: Admit the anxiety as an essential part of yourself and in exchange that anxiety will be converted into energy, unstable but manageable. Stop with the self-flagellating and become yourself, with scars and tics.

Daniel Smith