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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!
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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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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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
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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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Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
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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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Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.
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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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Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you.
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A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority and you must deal with him from that point of view.
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It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.
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I am grateful for the idea that has used me.
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
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Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
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All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest
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Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.
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We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
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My psychology belongs to everyone.
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He used to say to his melancholia patients: You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
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