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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.
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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Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
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Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking.
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The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.
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Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you.
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It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
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It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others.
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Man knows much more than he understands.
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We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
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We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them and when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life, we are almost certain to be misguided to some degree. Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations.
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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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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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The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.
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Follow your heart but take your brain with you.
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All failures are so because they lack social interest.
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To be human means to feel inferior.
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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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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
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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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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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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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