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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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We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them and when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life, we are almost certain to be misguided to some degree. Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations.
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Follow your heart but take your brain with you.
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If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.
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seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
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Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.
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The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.
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The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.
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It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.
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Man knows much more than he understands.
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You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.
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There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
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It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
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To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.
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