Anna Freud Quotes

• I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

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  Inspirational, Witty, Educational

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• In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

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  Dream, Eggs, Want

  "Insatiable creatures" by Adam Phillips, August 7, 2009.

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• If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

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  Longing, Ifs

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• Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

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  Joy, Earth

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• Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.

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  Beautiful, Sometimes, Given

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• We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

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  Ocean, Sailor, Tiny

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• Sex is something you do. Sexuality is something you are.

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  Sex, Sexuality

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• 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.

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  Trying, Way, Deals

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• Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

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  Friendship, Hate, Acting

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• The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

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  Mother, War, Loss

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• Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

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  Faults, Discontent

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• Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.

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  Children, Getting Lost, Blame

  Anna Freud, Dorothy T. Burlingham (1967). “The Writings of Anna Freud: Indications for child analysis and other papers, 1945-1956”

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• 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.

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  Mother, Children, Feelings

  Anna Freud, Dorothy T. Burlingham (1967). “The Writings of Anna Freud: Indications for child analysis and other papers, 1945-1956”

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• 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!

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  Stupid, Standing

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• I am no longer afraid to say anything.

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  Say Anything

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• Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

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  Circles, Want, Matter

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• We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

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  Past, Waiting, Trapped

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• 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.

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  Judging, Doe, Able

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• How can one know anything at all about people?

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  People, Knows

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• My different personalities leave me in peace now.

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  Personality, Different, Leaving Me

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• 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.

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  People, Opinion, Affection

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• A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

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  Firsts, Shock, Madhouses

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• I am glad that I do not have any children.

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  Children, Glad

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• We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

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  Yesterday, Space, Tree

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