Karl A. Menninger

“Mental health is the adjustment of human beings to the world and to each other with a maximum of effectiveness and happiness.”

“Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.”

“Attitudes are more important than facts.”

“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.”

“Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.”

“The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.”

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

“Money-giving is a very good criterion of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.”

“It is a curious paradox that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

“Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”

“The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of the fear.”

“Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.”

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

“One does not fall 'in' or 'out' of love. One grows in love.”