28 quotes
"It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love."
- Sigmund Freud
Love
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
- Sigmund Freud
Love
"One is very crazy when in love."
- Sigmund Freud
Love
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection."
- Sigmund Freud
Love
"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love."
- Sigmund Freud
Love
"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism."
- Sigmund Freud
Love
"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."
- Sigmund Freud
Love
"90% of our fears never come true."
- Sigmund Freud
Awareness
"It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it."
- Sigmund Freud
Awareness
"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life."
- Sigmund Freud
Awareness
"Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength."
- Sigmund Freud
Transformation
"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."
- Sigmund Freud
Self-awareness
"Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me."
- Sigmund Freud
Inspiration
"If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it."
- Sigmund Freud
Self-confidence
"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons."
- Sigmund Freud
Choice
"If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling, he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it."
- Sigmund Freud
Belief in Self
"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."
- Sigmund Freud
Responsibility
"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."
- Sigmund Freud
Insight
"He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore."
- Sigmund Freud
Insight
"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
- Sigmund Freud
Reflection
"One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
- Sigmund Freud
Reflection
"From error to error one discovers the entire truth"
- Sigmund Freud
Learning from Mistakes
"From error to error, one discovers the entire truth."
- Sigmund Freud
Learning from Mistakes
"Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts."
- Sigmund Freud
Contentment
"Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways."
- Sigmund Freud
Empathy
"Time spent with cats is never wasted."
- Sigmund Freud
Well-being
"Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions."
- Sigmund Freud
Influence
"We are what we are because we have been what we have been, and what is needed for solving the problems of human life and motives is not moral estimates but more knowledge."
- Sigmund Freud
Knowledge