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Follow your heart but take your brain with you.

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
Follow
Brain
Take
Heart

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War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
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There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
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The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.
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Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.
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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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Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.
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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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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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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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Every neurotic is partly in the right.
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My difficulties belong to me!
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Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you.
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