Alfred Adler Quotes

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

Man knows much more than he understands.

Every pampered child becomes a hated child…. There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma – but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you.

It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others.

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.