“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.”
"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
"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
"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."
- Anna Freud
Resilience
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity