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“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Drinking #Humor #People
“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Self Esteem #Life Is Good #May
“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Trust #Work #Commitment
“Follow your heart but take your brain with you.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Heart #Follow Your Heart #Brain
“Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Learning #Character #Men
“Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Determination #Giving #Determined
“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.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Thinking #Trying #Patient
“It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Inspirational #Wisdom #Courage
“To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Heart #Eye #Feelings
“Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Self #Knowing #Overcoming
“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.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Self #Giving #Degrees
“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.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Responsibility #Awkward #Tears
“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.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Success #Congratulations #Failure
“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.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Morning #Real #Broken
“An educator's most important task, one might say his holy duty, is to see to it that no child is discouraged at school, and that a child who enters school already discouraged regains his self-confidence through his school and his teacher. This goes hand in hand with the vocation of the educator, for education is possible only with children who look hopefully and joyfully upon the future.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Teacher #Children #School
“It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Facts #Interpretation #Obvious
“What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - 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

#Mistake #Swim #Way
“All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest”
-- Alfred Adler

#Suicide #Children #Failure
“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.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Simple #Views #People
“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.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Education #Art #Believe
“We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Inferiority #Temper #Bad Temper
“Man knows much more than he understands.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Men #Understanding
“The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Relationship #Sex #Patterns
“There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Pressure #Talent
“Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Children #Play #Pursuit
“seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Heart #Eye #Empathy
“There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Sorrow #Wells
“The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Men #Achievement #Worthwhile
“It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Spring #Men #Fellow Man
“To be human means to feel inferior.”
-- Alfred Adler

#Mean #Humanity #Feels

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