Mind Opening Sigmund Freud Quotes to help you LET GO of your negative thoughts (Psychology Quotes)

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength. One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair. The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves is that you in the past. And the only person better you should be, this is who you are now. In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart. History is just new people making old mistakes. The first indication of stupidity is a complete lack of shame. A large part of what is real within us is not comprehended, and that which is comprehended is not real. Every normal person is in fact only normal in part. Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. A woman should soften, but not weaken a man. We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious. The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is what does a woman want? How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved. When a love relationship is at its height, there is no room left for any interest in the environment, a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves. Love is a state of temporary psychosis. Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination. One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain, and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure. When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has. Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness, so that they can be normally unhappy. The madman is a dreamer awake. From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. The weakness of my position does not imply a strengthening of yours. We are what we are because we have been what we have been. The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice, one can do nothing. Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. Time spent with cats is never wasted. Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans. I became aware of my destiny to belong to the critical minority, as opposed to the unquestioning majority. I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily. In the depths of my heart, I can't help being convinced that my dear fellow men, with a few exceptions, are worthless. When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you, and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill. The scope of one's personality is defined by the magnitude of that problem which is capable of driving a person out of his wits. Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, make sure that you're not surrounded by fools. The task of making people happy did not form part of the plan of creation. The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. At that moment when a person starts to seriously ponder the meaning and value of life, you can consider him a madman. Everyone has wishes which he would not like to tell to others, which he does not want to admit even to himself. All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love. The dream is the disguised fulfillment of a suppressed or repressed wish. Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious mind. A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them, they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. When people criticize me, I know how to defend myself. But I'm powerless in the face of praise. The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside. Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost. Men are more moral than they think, and far more immoral than they can imagine. The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that, which the wicked man does in actual life. When it comes to the small matters in life, one should think long and hard. But when it comes to the big ones, whether or not to marry, whether to have children, one should just go ahead and do it. We are threatened with suffering from three directions. From our body, which is doomed to decay, from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally, from our relations with other men. This last source is perhaps more painful to use than any other. Men are strong, so long as they represent a strong idea, they become powerless when they oppose it. Public self, is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self. Every man must find out for himself, in what particular fashion he can be saved. Love in itself, in the form of longing and deprivation, lowers the self-regard. Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says. Smoking is indispensable, if one has nothing to kiss. Adults are children, that has become insane. All family life, is organized around the most damaged person in it. I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love, but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection, because of fear. Ideal, eternal love, purged of all hatred, exists only between the addict and his drug. I never want to belong to any club, that would have someone like me as a member. What progress we are making? In the middle ages, they would have burned me. Now, they are content with burning my books. None believes in his own death. In the unconscious, everyone is convinced of his own immortality. If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death. Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end, death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry. Illusions commend themselves to us, because they save us pain, and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. Every man has a right over his own life, and war destroys lives that were full of promise. It forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men against his will. The creative writer does the same as the child at play, he creates a world of fantasy, which he takes very seriously. Poets are masters of us ordinary men in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams, which we have not yet made accessible to science. Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me. The first person to throw an insult instead of a stone, was the founder of civilization. Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery. Which quote did you like the most? Share your opinion in the comments. Subscribe and turn on notifications, so you don't regret missing life-changing advice from some of the greatest thinkers in history. I will see you in the next video. Take care.