Mearns Quotes

#1. Susan Carol had arrived at the stadium with Bobby Kelleher and Tamara Mearns

John Feinstein

#2. Ask me what else I remember."
She started to run away, but his hand touched her arm.
"Ask me," he commanded.
Emma shook her head feeling both terrified and the most alive she'd felt in years.
He waited patiently until her eyes met his. "I remember us, Emma.

Lauren Layne

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

Dave Mearns

#4. 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

#5. When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'

Samantha Barks

#6. As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wan't there
He wasn't there again today
Oh I wish he'd go away!

William Hughes Mearns

#7. 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

#8. As I was sitting in my chair,
I knew the bottom wasn't there,
Nor legs nor back, but I just sat,
Ignoring little things like that.

Hughes Mearns

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

Dave Mearns

#10. Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

William Hughes Mearns

#11. 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

#12. Meanwhile the children were tucked snug in their beds,
while visions of candy corn
danced in their heads.

Natasha Wing

#13. It was so important to me, I thought it should be important to him. I thought that was love.

Mitch Albom

#14. Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be taught; indeed, it cannot even be summoned; it can only be permitted.

William Hughes Mearns

#15. Work out the details in achieving your dreams

Sunday Adelaja

#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. 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