If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride
Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual loses sight of himself; he feels, if he does not actually become, like a shadow without weight and substance.
Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
There is no such thing as a normal psychology that holds for all people.
If I couldn't be pretty, I decided I would be smart.
a normal human being ... does not exist.