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

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

- Anna Freud

Self-awareness

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

- Anna Freud

Inspiration

"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

Adversity

"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

Adversity

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

- Anna Freud

Resilience

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"Beauty is not about physical perfection, but about authenticity and confidence."

- Beauty and the Beast

Self-awareness

"Beauty is found in the unique qualities that make us who we are."

- Beauty and the Beast

Self-awareness

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

Self-awareness

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

Self-awareness

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

Self-awareness