1. “One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.”
2. “Nobody is born evil.”
3. “For the human soul is virtually indestructible and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath .”
4. “The aim of therapy is not to correct the past, but to enable the patient to confront his own history and to grieve over it.”
5. “Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor van they be eradicated. We can only repress them, eludes ourselves and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.”
6. “Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one’s own despised and unwanted feelings.”
7. “The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.”
8. “An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.”
9. “We can never do the eight thing as long as we are out to please someone else.”
10. “The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.”
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