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

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

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....

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.

Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid...

Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid...

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,...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was...

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was...

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...

I am glad that I do not have any children.

I am glad that I do not have any children.

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.

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

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

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...

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished,...

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished,...