Healing Combat Trauma

Quotable Quotes -- Karl Menninger on Hope and Suicide

"Hope is the major weapon against the suicide impulse." -- Karl Menninger, M.D., psychiatrist.

For what it's worth, even though we've been posting a number of quotes lately, intending to provoke deeper thought and reflection, there's also an enormous archive (~1,000 articles) on this site, on topics such as suicide and the Tao of healing. Enjoy.

Quotable Quotes -- Eckhart Tolle on the Benefits of Suffering

"Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion." -- Eckhart Tolle, author of "The Power of Now."

Quotable Quotes -- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross on Struggle Perfecting People

Swiss-born physician Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, famous for her seminal work on the emotional progression associated with dying, also had something wonderful to say about the benefit of hardship for improving who we are.

She wrote:

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen." -- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., author of "On Death and Dying."