Top 70 John Bradshaw Quotes (2024 Update)
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John Bradshaw Quote: “Richard Bandler suggested that one of the major blocks to creativity was the feeling of knowing you are right.”

51. “Richard Bandler suggested that one of the major blocks to creativity was the feeling of knowing you are right.”

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John Bradshaw Quote: “The disowned part of self is an energy – an emotion or desire or need, that has been shamed every time it emerged. These energy patterns are repressed but not destroyed. They are alive in our unconscious.”

52. “The disowned part of self is an energy – an emotion or desire or need, that has been shamed every time it emerged. These energy patterns are repressed but not destroyed. They are alive in our unconscious.”

— John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw Quote: “Our schools and prisons are the only places in the world where time is more important than the job to be done.”

53. “Our schools and prisons are the only places in the world where time is more important than the job to be done.”

— John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw Quote: “Healthy shame lets us know that we are limited. It tells us that to be human is to be limited. Actually, humans are essentially limited. Not one of us has, or can ever have, unlimited power.”

54. “Healthy shame lets us know that we are limited. It tells us that to be human is to be limited. Actually, humans are essentially limited. Not one of us has, or can ever have, unlimited power.”

— John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw Quote: “But when the feeling of shame is violated by a coercive and perfectionistic religion and culture – especially by shame-based source figures who mediate religion and culture – it becomes an all-embracing identity.”

55. “But when the feeling of shame is violated by a coercive and perfectionistic religion and culture – especially by shame-based source figures who mediate religion and culture – it becomes an all-embracing identity.”

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John Bradshaw Quote: “Montagu argues that the human species was designed to develop “in ways that emphasize rather than minimize the childlike traits.” The human child naturally loves, is nonjudgmental, friendly, spontaneous, curious, open to new learning, etc. We cannot recover our innocence, our childlike qualities, until we have reclaimed and championed our Inner Child.”

56. “Montagu argues that the human species was designed to develop “in ways that emphasize rather than minimize the childlike traits.” The human child naturally loves, is nonjudgmental, friendly, spontaneous, curious, open to new learning, etc. We cannot recover our innocence, our childlike qualities, until we have reclaimed and championed our Inner Child.”

— John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw Quote: “Sam Keen points out that Zen masters spend years to reach an enlightenment that every natural child already knows – the total incarnation of sleeping when you’re tired and eating when you’re hungry. What irony that this state of Zen-like bliss is programmatically and systematically destroyed.”

57. “Sam Keen points out that Zen masters spend years to reach an enlightenment that every natural child already knows – the total incarnation of sleeping when you’re tired and eating when you’re hungry. What irony that this state of Zen-like bliss is programmatically and systematically destroyed.”

— John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw Quote: “Darwin knew that the mother of the blush was shame. For Darwin, shame defines our essential humanity. Silvan Tomkins views shame as an innate feeling that limits our experience of interest, curiosity and pleasure.”

58. “Darwin knew that the mother of the blush was shame. For Darwin, shame defines our essential humanity. Silvan Tomkins views shame as an innate feeling that limits our experience of interest, curiosity and pleasure.”

— John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw Quote: “Without our anger we become doormats and people pleasers. In childhood you were most likely severely shamed and punished when you expressed anger.”

59. “Without our anger we become doormats and people pleasers. In childhood you were most likely severely shamed and punished when you expressed anger.”

— John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw Quote: “Jung said it well: “All our neuroses are substitutes for legitimate suffering.”

60. “Jung said it well: “All our neuroses are substitutes for legitimate suffering.”

— John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw Quote: “I have never met an aggressive person who wasn’t a fearful person.”

61. “I have never met an aggressive person who wasn’t a fearful person.”

— John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw Quote: “Children are natural believers – they know there is something greater than themselves.”

62. “Children are natural believers – they know there is something greater than themselves.”

— John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw Quote: “Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial.”

63. “Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial.”

— John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw Quote: “In 15 years of working with teenage drug abusers, I’ve never found a single one who was what I’d call only a chemical addict. As powerful as many of the current market drugs are, especially cocaine and crack, I’ve never yet worked with an addict who didn’t have the inner emptiness. I’ve been in my personal recovery for 30 years and I’ve never met a person in recovery from chemical abuse who didn’t have abandonment issues in the sense I have defined them.”

64. “In 15 years of working with teenage drug abusers, I’ve never found a single one who was what I’d call only a chemical addict. As powerful as many of the current market drugs are, especially cocaine and crack, I’ve never yet worked with an addict who didn’t have the inner emptiness. I’ve been in my personal recovery for 30 years and I’ve never met a person in recovery from chemical abuse who didn’t have abandonment issues in the sense I have defined them.”

— John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw Quote: “Thus, the Church of Rome gave its official sanction to cruelty toward cats. Anyone coming upon a cat after dark was justified in killing or maiming it, on the grounds that it might be a witch in disguise.”

65. “Thus, the Church of Rome gave its official sanction to cruelty toward cats. Anyone coming upon a cat after dark was justified in killing or maiming it, on the grounds that it might be a witch in disguise.”

— John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw Quote: “You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.”

66. “You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.”

— John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw Quote: “When we think we are absolutely right, we stop seeking new information. To be right is to be certain, and to be certain stops us from being curious.”

67. “When we think we are absolutely right, we stop seeking new information. To be right is to be certain, and to be certain stops us from being curious.”

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John Bradshaw Quote: “The utter atrocities of Nazism have shown us clearly what the inherent potential of destruction in the parenting rules we have been using for the last 150 years. These rules are non-democratic. They are based on inequality of power and unequal rights. They promote the use and ownership of some people by others and teach the denial and repression of emotional vitality and spontaneity. They glorify obedience, orderliness, logic, rationality, power and male supremacy. They are flagrantly anti-life.”

68. “The utter atrocities of Nazism have shown us clearly what the inherent potential of destruction in the parenting rules we have been using for the last 150 years. These rules are non-democratic. They are based on inequality of power and unequal rights. They promote the use and ownership of some people by others and teach the denial and repression of emotional vitality and spontaneity. They glorify obedience, orderliness, logic, rationality, power and male supremacy. They are flagrantly anti-life.”

— John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw Quote: “When a child is deprived and neglected, he has a much harder time delaying gratification. Our wounded inner child believes that there is a severe scarcity of love, food, strokes, and enjoyment. Therefore, whenever the opportunity arises to have these things, our inner kid goes overboard.”

69. “When a child is deprived and neglected, he has a much harder time delaying gratification. Our wounded inner child believes that there is a severe scarcity of love, food, strokes, and enjoyment. Therefore, whenever the opportunity arises to have these things, our inner kid goes overboard.”

— John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw Quote: “I can simply tell you that all of us need to be aware that trauma has a twofold potential: it can be the catalyst for creative change or the cause of self-destruction.”

70. “I can simply tell you that all of us need to be aware that trauma has a twofold potential: it can be the catalyst for creative change or the cause of self-destruction.”

— John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw Quote: “We need to teach our inner child that problems are normal and that he must accept them.”

71. “We need to teach our inner child that problems are normal and that he must accept them.”

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John Bradshaw Quote: “These authors posit that a value is not a value unless it has seven elements. They are: 1. It must be chosen. 2. There must be alternatives. 3. You must know the consequences of your choice. 4. Once chosen you prize and cherish it. 5. You are willing to publicly proclaim it. 6. You act on this value. 7. You act on it consistently and repeatedly.”

72. “These authors posit that a value is not a value unless it has seven elements. They are: 1. It must be chosen. 2. There must be alternatives. 3. You must know the consequences of your choice. 4. Once chosen you prize and cherish it. 5. You are willing to publicly proclaim it. 6. You act on this value. 7. You act on it consistently and repeatedly.”

— John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw Quote: “Their “strange Divinity” results from their lacking any sense of right or wrong, good or bad.”

73. “Their “strange Divinity” results from their lacking any sense of right or wrong, good or bad.”

— John Bradshaw

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