Anna Freud

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. ↗

— Anna Freud

#inspirational

Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter! ↗

— Anna Freud

#everyone #grown #here #i #i am

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock. ↗

— Anna Freud

#first #madhouse #shock #visit

If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me. ↗

— Anna Freud

#everything #i #looks #me #stupid

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth? ↗

— Anna Freud

#earth #joy #only #promised #were

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness? ↗

— Anna Freud

#around #basically #everything #everywhere #friendship

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself. ↗

— Anna Freud

#because #becomes #discontent #everything #faults

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life. ↗

— Anna Freud

#call #goes #life #longing #some

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost. ↗

— Anna Freud

#children #elsewhere #emotions #engaged #feel

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned. ↗

— Anna Freud

#beautiful thing #comes #most #most beautiful #precisely