When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about
Harry Stack SullivanIf you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
Harry Stack SullivanAs you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.
Harry Stack SullivanIt may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.
Harry Stack SullivanIf you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.
Harry Stack SullivanEverybody has a great deal of experience in living. But no one lives in anything like the highest style of the art; and it is very disconcerting to notice how badly one lives in the sense of the extent to which fatigue and other discomforts are connected with one's important dealings with other people.
Harry Stack Sullivan