There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.

Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense.

a normal human being ... does not exist.

There is no such thing as a normal psychology that holds for all people.

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

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.