Anna Freud

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

- Anna Freud

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

- Anna Freud

"Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned."

- Anna Freud

"Instead of turning away from them (war conditions) in instinctive horror, as people seem to expect, the child may turn towards them with primitive excitement. The real danger is not that the child, caught up all innocently in the whirlpool of war, will be shocked into illness. The danger lies in the fact that the destruction ranging in the outer world may meet the very real aggressiveness ranging in the inside of the child."

- Anna Freud

"There are few situations in life which are more difficult to cope with than an adolescent son or daughter during the attempt to liberate themselves."

- Anna Freud

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."

- Anna Freud

"Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be."

- Anna Freud