But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.

The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.

What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future.

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.