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Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.
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
Self
Difficulties
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Knowing
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To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
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There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.
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We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
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The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.
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The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
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The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.
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There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
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War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
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The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
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My difficulties belong to me!
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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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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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Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
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