Zitat des Tages von Anna Freud:
If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.
Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.
Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.
I am glad that I do not have any children.
Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?
A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
How can one know anything at all about people?
My different personalities leave me in peace now.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
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!
I am no longer afraid to say anything.
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.
What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.
If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
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.
