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Anna Freud
Austrian
Psychologist
About the author
Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Children
#Blame
It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Children
#Mother
#Emotions
#Feelings
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Life
#Infinite
#Ocean
If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Day
#Wrong
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Time
#Strength
#Confidence
I am no longer afraid to say anything.
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
I am glad that I do not have any children.
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Children
How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Being
How can one know anything at all about people?
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
#People
Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Discontent
Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
#First
#Visit
Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Training
If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Life
#Longing
What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
#People
#Nothing
#Opinion
#Affection
My different personalities leave me in peace now.
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Now
#Peace
Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Women
#Girls
Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Writers
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned.
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Right
We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Space
#Trees
#Yesterday
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Work
#Past
#Future
Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Earth
#Joy
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
Anna Freud,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Acting
#Hate
#Friendship
#Ugliness