Marsha Linehan Quotes

#1. Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you.

Hermann Goring

#2. Responding to a suicide attempt by insisting that it must stop, and devoting the full resources of therapy to preventing it, is a communication with compassion and care at its very core.

Marsha M. Linehan

#3. The great thing about treating borderline patients is that it is like having a supervisor always in the room.

Marsha M. Linehan

#4. A patient's passivity must not be unilaterally interpreted as lack of motivation, resistance, lack of confidence, or the like. Many times, passivity is a function of inadequate knowledge and/or skills.

Marsha M. Linehan

#5. There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

Thomas Carlyle

#6. Acceptance is the only way out of hell.

Marsha M. Linehan

#7. Free will and choice implies that you are able to even re-write your record of memories.

Lionel Suggs

#8. Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.

Marsha M. Linehan

#9. You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.

Marsha M. Linehan

#10. Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make.

Kent Nerburn

#11. We do not mark out any precise line to be followed in diet; but we do say that in countries where there are fruits, grains, and nuts in abundance, flesh food is not the right food for God's people.

Ellen G. White

#12. To be truly effective at content marketing, we need to excel at promotion.

Kieran Flanagan

#13. People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.

Marsha M. Linehan

#14. Benjamin Netanyahu understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.

Thomas Friedman

#15. The pathway to freedom begins when we face the problem without making excuses for it.

Joyce Meyer

#16. It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's ridiculous.

Clarence Thomas

#17. It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.

John Dykstra

#18. The truth is ugly, so we put our prophets in prison.

Charles Manson

#19. Along with all the other stunning statistics China can provide, it can also claim to be the world leader in making energy from human excrement. Biogas, as this energy is known, can be produced from the fermentation of any organic material, from wood to vegetables to human excreta.

Rose George

#20. Facials are my biggest beauty indulgence. Looking good is about having a good base. It's about taking care of your skin.

Halle Berry

#21. We restore order through the imagination. We restore hope over and over and over again ...

Walt Disney Company

#22. The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.

Roseanne Barr