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

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.

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

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

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

Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.

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.