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1 " The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. "
― Alfred Adler
2 " Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. "
3 " Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. "
4 " seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another. "
5 " It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. "
6 " Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles. "
7 " The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. "
8 " We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. "
9 " Nobody adopts antisocial behavior unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life. "
10 " Bir birey geçmişine baktığında resimler ve olaylar seçkisi derler.Bu seçmenin yanlı olduğunu,anılar koleksiyonundan yalnızca kişisel üstünlüğünü destekleyen olaylar seçtiğini bulduk. Anılarına egemen olan şey onun üstünlük hedefidir.Aynı biçimde,bir rüyanın oluşumunda yalnizca yaşam biçimimizi güçlendiren ve belli sorunlarla karşılaştığımızda yaşam biçimimizin bizden ne beklediğini ortaya koyan olayları seçeriz.Dolayısıyla bu olaylar seçkisi o andaki güçlülerimizle ilgili olarak yaşam biçiminin anlamını gösterir.Rüyanın oluşumunda,yaşam biçimi kendi yolunu dayatmaktadır.Bu sorunları gerçekçi bir biçimde karşılamak sağduyu gerektirecektir ama yaşam biçimi buna izin vermeyi reddeder. "
11 " This quote begins here. A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. This quote ends here. "
― Alfred Adler , Social Interest: Adler's Key to the Meaning of Life
12 " Do not forget the most important fact that not heredity and not environment are determining factors. - Both are giving only the frame and the influences which are answered by the individual in regard to his styled creative power. "
― Alfred Adler , The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler
13 " Follow your heart but take your brain with you. "
14 " It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring. "
― Alfred Adler , Understanding Life
15 " To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. "
16 " He used to say to his melancholia patients:"You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone. "
17 " It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. "
18 " we limit ourselves to normal cases of mutual influence, we find that those people are most capable of being influenced who are most amenable to reason and logic, those whose social feeling has been least distorted. On the contrary, those who thirst for superiority and desire domination are very difficult to influence. Observation teaches us this fact every day. "
― Alfred Adler , Understanding Human Nature
19 " To be human means to feel inferior. "
20 " We learn in friendship to look with the eyes of another person, to listen with her ears, and to feel with her heart. "
