It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.
Harry Stack SullivanWhen the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.
Harry Stack SullivanYour emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.
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 SullivanIf you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
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