My different personalities leave me in peace now.Collection: Peace
We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.Collection: Space
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.Collection: Strength
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?Collection: Friendship
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.
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.
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.
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.
Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.
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!
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.
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.
In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.Collection: Dream
Sex is something you do. Sexuality is something you are.Collection: Sex
The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a motherCollection: Mother
The selection of leadership must follow practical considerations. Maybe I look at things too pessimistically?Collection: Looks