Karen Horney Quotes

For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can func...

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a ver...

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from...

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make t...

The tenacity with which the neurotic adheres to any attitude is a sure indication that the attitude ...

The declining of responsibility for the self can also be hidden behind a pseudo-objectivity. A patie...

It is naturally a sign of inner liberation when a patient can squarely recognize his difficulties an...

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization.

Whether we forget something we are not proud of, or embellish it, or blame somebody else, we want to...

Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greate...

The pride in intellect, or rather in the supremacy of the mind, is not restricted to those engaged i...

Pride in many diverse ways is the enemy of love.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that ...

When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one rec...

The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be ...

Concern should drive us into action not into a depression.