Karen Horney Quotes and Sayings
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“Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.”
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“Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.”
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“If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride”
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“There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.”
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“Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.”
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“No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time”
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“The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.”
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“Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense.”
-- Karen Horney