Sheldon Kopp Quotes

Sheldon Kopp was a psychotherapist and author, based in Washington, D.C.. He was born in New York City, and received his PhD from the New School for Social Research. In addition to his private practice, he served as a Psychotherapy Supervisor for the Pastoral Counselling and Consultation Centres in Washington. He died of cardiac arrhythmia and pneumonia.

He is also popular for his quotes.

One of them is, "All of the significant battles are waged within the self." Wikipedia

✵ 29. March 1929 – 29. March 1999

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Famous Sheldon Kopp Quotes

“We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.”

Source: Even a stone can be a teacher (1985), p. 85

“We make a mistake if we ask ourselves, "Am I good enough?" or "Is it worthwhile to be me?" … Whoever heard of a baby who was inadequate or a child who did not know just exactly how to be a child? How could it not be all right for me to be me? How could it not be just right for you to be you?”

Source: Even a stone can be a teacher (1985), p. 106

“It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings.”

Source: Even a stone can be a teacher (1985), p. 20

“Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.”

Source: Even a stone can be a teacher (1985), p. 112

“One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.”

Source: Even a stone can be a teacher (1985), p. 11

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