alfred adler

“ 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. ”

“ To be human means to feel inferior. ”

“ 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! ”

“ 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. ”

“ It is very obvious that we are not influenced by 'facts' but by our interpretation of the facts. ”

“ 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. ”

“ You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription. Try to think every day how you can please someone. ”

“ We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. ”

“ It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others. ”

“ The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul. ”