Psychotherapist

🇦🇹Viktor Frankl

Psychology

1905–1997

"There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life."

🇩🇪Carl Jung

Psychology

1852–1924

"You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return."

🇺🇸Rollo May

Philosophy

1909–1994

"Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about."

🇺🇸Wayne Dyer

Philosophy

1940–2015

"You will never win if you have to prove that you are the winner."

"Do Something Nice for Someone Else — and Don't Tell Anyone About It"

🇺🇸Colette Dowling

Literature

b. 1938

"The woman who has sprung free has emotional mobility. She is able to move toward the things that are satisfying to her and away from those that are not. She is free, also, to succeed."

"People are always asking about the good old days. I say, why don't you say the good now days?"

🇺🇸Paul Goodman

Literature

anarchism

1911–1972

"The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status."

"Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression."

🇺🇸Wayne W. Dyer

Literature

1940–2015

"In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people."

"Women must begin to "save" themselves and their daughters before they "save" their husbands and their sons; before they "save" the whole world."

🇺🇸Amy Bloom

Literature

b. 1953

"Love at first sight is easy to understand"

🇦🇹Viktor E. Frankl

Psychology

1905–1997

"We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies."

🇺🇸Nathaniel Branden

Philosophy

1930–2014

"It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior."

🇺🇸Karen Horney

Literature

1885–1952

"Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning."

🇬🇧Dion Fortune

Literature

1890–1946

"Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers."

🇺🇸Virginia Satir

Literature

1916–1988

"We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth."

"Why men drag their feet down the aisle, 06/26/2002, USA Today"

🇨🇦Marion Woodman

Literature

1928–2018

"Thank you, dear Sophia. From every cell in my broken body, my radiant body, I thank you. I am alive. I am free... to live... to die."

🇩🇪Eugen Drewermann

Religion

b. 1940

"People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant."

🇦🇹Alfred Adler

Medicine

Neo-Freudianism

1870–1937

"Man knows much more than he understands."