Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent.
The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.
In every adult there lurks a child – an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.
Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three... The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.
Love and work, work and love... that’s all there is.
There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind – separate from the conscious mind – that is constantly at work molding our thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.
Religion is a universal obsessional neurosis.
Where id was, there ego shall be.
Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.