We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

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All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

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The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

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There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.

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History is just new people making old mistakes.

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Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.

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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

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Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.

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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

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