"His mother's favorite, he possessed the self-confidence that told him he would achieve something worth while in life, and the ambition to do so, though for long the direction this would take remained uncertain."

--

Source : Ernest Jones (1961). “The life and work of Sigmund Freud”, Basic Books (AZ)

Ernest Jones

#Mother Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Self Confidence Quotes

“The task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Nov 05, 2013
“If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.”
“To those seniors, and especially elderly veterans like myself, I want to tell you this: You are not alone, and you having nothing to be ashamed of. If elder abuse happened to me, it can happen to anyone. I want you to know that you deserve better.”
“You have to have passion for everything you do, and you've got to look at the positive side.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death.”
“Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.”
“I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.”
“God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.”

You may also like:

Anna Freud
Psychologist
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist
Donald Woods Winnicott
Psychoanalyst
Gustave Le Bon
Social Psychologist
Karen Horney
Psychoanalyst
Karl Abraham
Psychoanalyst
Melanie Klein
Psychoanalyst
Otto Rank
Psychoanalyst
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist