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

Quote by Anna Freud

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I am glad that I do not have any children.

I am glad that I do not have any children.

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always...

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always...

How can one know anything at all about people?

How can one know anything at all about people?

If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.

If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically...

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically...

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing...

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing...

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

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

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

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

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned.

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned.

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's...

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's...

Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.

Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way...

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way...

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within....

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within....

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

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

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

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

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more...

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more...

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

I am no longer afraid to say anything.

I am no longer afraid to say anything.

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants...

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants...

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.