Anna Freud famous quotes

06-15-2025

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
-- Anna Freud

#Inspirational #Positive #Confidence
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
-- Anna Freud

#Inspirational #Witty #Educational
If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
-- Anna Freud

#Longing
A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
-- Anna Freud

#Firsts #Shock
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.
-- Anna Freud

#Beautiful #Sometimes #Given
Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.
-- Anna Freud

#Circles #Want #Matter
Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.
-- Anna Freud

#Children #Getting Lost #Blame
In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.
-- Anna Freud

#Dream #Eggs #Want
Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.
-- Anna Freud

#Trying #Way #Deals
It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
-- Anna Freud

#Mother #Children #Feelings
Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.
-- Anna Freud

#Papa #Fixed #Unexplained
What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.
-- Anna Freud

#People #Opinion #Affection
Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.
-- Anna Freud

#Girl #Papa #Hours
How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.
-- Anna Freud

#Judging #Doe #Able
It is there all the time.
-- Anna Freud

#Time
We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
-- Anna Freud

#Yesterday #Space #Tree
If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.
-- Anna Freud

#Stupid #Looks
Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!
-- Anna Freud

#Stupid #Standing
The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother
-- Anna Freud

#Mother #War #Loss
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
-- Anna Freud

#Ocean #Sailor #Tiny
Sex is something you do. Sexuality is something you are.
-- Anna Freud

#Sex #Sexuality
I am glad that I do not have any children.
-- Anna Freud

#Children #Glad
I am no longer afraid to say anything.
-- Anna Freud

#Say Anything
How can one know anything at all about people?
-- Anna Freud

#People
Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.
-- Anna Freud

#Faults #Discontent
My different personalities leave me in peace now.
-- Anna Freud

#Personality #Different #Leaving Me
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
-- Anna Freud

#Friendship #Hate #Acting
Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?
-- Anna Freud

#Joy #Earth
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
-- Anna Freud

#Past #Waiting

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