"Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life."

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Source : Karen Horney (2013). “Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS”, p.23, Routledge

Karen Horney

#Conflict Quotes #Human Life Quotes #Let Me Quotes

“Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.”
“Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.”
“Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!”
“But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.”
“Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonder, sorrow, and deference in the face of something greater and more powerful... Only such a being-unto-death can guarantee the precondition that the Da-sein be able to free itself from its absorption in, its submission and surrender of itself to the things and relationships of everyday living and to return to itself.”
“When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.”
“I wouldn't kidnap a man for sex - I'm not saying I couldn't use someone to oil the mower.”
“The thought processes that go through my head when I'm playing a game compared to the thought processes in real life are very, very different. And they're more interesting to me than what you think about when you're doing the dishes, cleaning the yard, watching TV, driving or watching a movie.”

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