14 quotes
"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."
- Alfred Adler
Awareness
"Follow your heart but take your brain with you."
- Alfred Adler
Balance
"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 from among such individuals that all human failures spring."
- Alfred Adler
Compassion
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
- Alfred Adler
Integrity
"Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement."
- Alfred Adler
Motivation
"To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation."
- Alfred Adler
Motivation
"War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man."
- Alfred Adler
Adversity
"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."
- Alfred Adler
Wisdom
"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."
- Alfred Adler
Taking Risks
"A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous."
- Alfred Adler
Honesty
"Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another."
- Alfred Adler
Empathy
"Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another."
- Alfred Adler
Empathy
"Seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another."
- Alfred Adler
Empathy
"God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection."
- Alfred Adler
Spirituality