Best Quotes by Karen Horney (Top 10)

  1. If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride
  2. Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
  3. There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.
  4. Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.
  5. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
  6. The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings, one's work, one's beliefs.
  7. To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.
  8. Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
  9. The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
  10. Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

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