Alfred Adler citations

“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”

“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”

“It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”

“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”

“A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.”

“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 fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring.”

“Man knows much more than he understands.”

“The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.”

“seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.”

“He used to say to his melancholia patients:
"You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription. Try to think every day how you can please someone.”

“To be human means to feel inferior.”

“Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.”