Karl A. Menninger

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#love #inspirational

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#teacher

It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#religion

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#mark #spirit #unrest

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#hope #impulse #life #major #necessity

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#envy #forbidden #identify #illegal #need

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#creative #creative force #expand #force #friends

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#because #collection #different #different ways #facts

Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#bad guys #guys #nobody #police

What's done to children, they will do to society. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#done #society #will