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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Alfred Adler

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Alfred Adler
Age: 67 †
Born: 1870
Born: February 7
Died: 1937
Died: May 28
Ophthalmologist
Psychiatrist
Psychotherapist
Vienna
Austria
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Determine
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All failures are so because they lack social interest.
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To be human means to feel inferior.
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I am grateful for the idea that has used me.
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There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait but if he does not learn it he must perish.
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Follow your heart but take your brain with you.
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To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
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The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.
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Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
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The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.
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Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
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