Follow your heart but take your brain with you.
The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.
Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
You can be healed of depression if you begin every day, first thing in the morning, by considering how you will bring real joy to someone else.
To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.
Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.
Everything can always be different!
It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others.
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.
There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.
All failures – neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes – are failures because they are lacking in social interest.
The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.
The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.
We must never neglect the patient’s own use of his symptoms.
To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.