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The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
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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What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.
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It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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I am grateful for the idea that has used me.
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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
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Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.
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Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
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No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
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Man knows much more than he understands.
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We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a getaway. We cannot love and be limited.
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It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.
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Follow your heart but take your brain with you.
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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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The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind, and that in this respect no limits are set for him.
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It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
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Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
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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 only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.
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