Karen Horney Quotes

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Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

- Karen Horney

Life, Effective, Very, Remains

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

- Karen Horney

Life, Very, Still, Fortunately

The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.

- Karen Horney

Searching, Stimulating, Most, Selves

When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.

- Karen Horney

Experience, Envy, Childbirth, Pregnancy

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

- Karen Horney

Morality, Convention, Shalt, Thou

The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

- Karen Horney

Actually, Represents, Disappointments

Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?

- Karen Horney

Thought, Someone, Beneficial, Besides

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

- Karen Horney

Action, Drive, Should, Depression

Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.

- Karen Horney

Strong, Rather, Sincerely, Accordingly

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

- Karen Horney

Civilization, Perfect, Normal

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

- Karen Horney

Point Of View, Like, Been, Sciences

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