Anna Freud

“נהגתי לחפש כוח וביטחון מחוץ לעצמי, אבל הם נמצאים בפנים. הם היו שם מאז ומתמיד.”

“בין אם אתם מרגישים שאתם מסוגלים או לא מסוגלים לעשות דבר, אתם צודקים.”

“אם שאיפה מסוימת אינה מתממשת, אל תתפלאו, אלה הם החיים.”

“מוחות יצירתיים ידועים בכך ששרדו כל סוג של אימון גרוע.”

“It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.”

“Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.”

“I am no longer afraid to say anything.”

“Instead of turning away from them (war conditions) in instinctive horror, as people seem to expect, the child may turn towards them with primitive excitement. The real danger is not that the child, caught up all innocently in the whirlpool of war, will be shocked into illness. The danger lies in the fact that the destruction ranging in the outer world may meet the very real aggressiveness ranging in the inside of the child”

“Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.”

“My different personalities leave me in peace now.”

“Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.”

“We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.”

“If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.”

“Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!”

“Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?”

“Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.”

“How can one know anything at all about people?”

“Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.”

“A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.”

“How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.”