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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
Leads
Overcoming
Difficulty
Courage
Respect
Knowing

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Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality.
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Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
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What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?
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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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Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
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