31+ Philippa Perry Quotes On Education, Friendship And Relationships

Philippa Perry is a psychotherapist, author, and broadcaster. She is the author of several books, including The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (And Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did). She is a regular contributor to the Guardian, the Observer, and BBC Radio 4, and has appeared on a variety of TV programs, including the BBC's The One Show. She is a passionate advocate for mental health and well-being, and her work has helped many people to better understand and manage their emotions. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Philippa Perry on education, friendship, life.

Top 10 Philippa Perry Quotes

1. A relapse doesn't mean you'll never walk down the path you prefer. But I think relapses are almost an inevitable part of any course of self-development.
2. In order to stretch ourselves we do need to experience the vulnerability of not knowing the outcome.
3. If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle.
4. Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life.
5. I am talking about being optimistic enough to sow some seeds in the hope that some of them will germinate and grow into flowers.
6. When we had to survive on our wits, gather and kill our food from scratch and be more at the mercy of our environment than we are today, we probably had enough challenge to keep our brains healthy.
7. There are probably times where the creative process is not helped by collaboration.
8. Whether you plan or whether you flow in order to be creative probably isn't the point. The point is to keep practicing to maintain neural pathways and to establish new ones by learning new skills.
9. Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.
10. Two brains are better than one. You've twice the brain capacity and you have two sets of experiences and genes to bring to any challenge.

Philippa Perry Short Quotes

• We don't have to have suffered brain damage to take advantage of the plastic nature of our brains.
• Our brains do not have to be fixed, they can be plastic.
• A sense of achievement improves general confidence and self-esteem.

Philippa Perry Famous Quotes And Sayings

Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions of its own genome and thus adapt to environmental pressures, physiologic changes, and experiences. — Philippa Perry

Sometimes an artist's vision may get blurred when subjected to a committee because an artwork is usually an expression of something unconscious that is better left in the realm of one person's unconscious if it is to speak to another person's unconscious. — Philippa Perry

People tend to slip up and go along the old road before they realise what they've done and climb out of it again. — Philippa Perry

Beginning a new habit, or ending an old one can feel like letting go of a rope that swings a mile above the ground. So we feel reluctant to let go, after all, we've survived so far doing what we've done, why risk it. — Philippa Perry

It used to be thought that you stopped making new neural connections in your youth and from then on your brain was fixed and it was downhill all the way. But in fact as we know from our own experience we can keep on learning and learning means changing our brain on a physical level. — Philippa Perry

We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface content. Then we can begin to experiment with changing the filter through which we look at the world, start to edit the story and thus regain flexibility where we have been getting stuck — Philippa Perry

The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about being aware of these extremes and steering yourself to areas where you work best which usually tend to be more in the middle than at either extreme edge. — Philippa Perry

Meditators are shown to have thickening in parts of the brain structure that deal with attention, memory and sensory functions. This was found to be more noticeable in older, more practiced meditators than in younger adults which is interesting because this structure usually tends to get thinner as we age. — Philippa Perry

If we think of our brains as a map, those early roads are like grooves, tram tracks, easy to fall into. — Philippa Perry

I think there is probably something evolutionary in that we are drawn to the easiest option. But in our age of convenience, cars, ready meals and off the peg mean that we are in danger of being mentally under stretched. — Philippa Perry

After a stroke we can re-learn how to talk, because by practicing we can establish different pathways in the brain, circumnavigating the damaged part. — Philippa Perry

If we keep practicing mental skills it is likely we can strengthen neural connections and make new connections. — Philippa Perry

As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved like this so that we are able to tell the younger generation about the stories and experiences that have formed us which may be important to subsequent generations if they are to thrive.I worry though, about what might happen to our minds if most of the stories we hear are about greed, war, and atrocity — Philippa Perry

If you start from a position of I'm a no-hoper, in a paradoxical kind of way you are not risking being vulnerable. — Philippa Perry

The trouble is if we take no new steps to try a new challenge, our comfort zone doesn't seem just to stay still, but retract. — Philippa Perry

Neurogenesis continues throughout life and we have the capacity to establish new neural pathways and strengthen existing ones. — Philippa Perry

If someone is depressed they tend to retreat within the inner circle of their comfort zone which in the longer term, may contribute to exacerbating a problem rather than soothing it and if not seeking to expand the comfort zone becomes the norm. — Philippa Perry

It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work. — Philippa Perry

Life Lessons by Philippa Perry

1. Philippa Perry emphasizes the importance of understanding yourself and your emotions in order to create meaningful relationships with others.
2. She encourages us to be mindful of our own feelings and to be open to the feelings of others, in order to foster meaningful connections.
3. She also encourages us to recognize our own patterns of behavior and to be aware of how our actions can affect others.