Alfred Adler

"Mind is the ruler of all things."

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

"An inferiority complex is not something shameful. We all have it, more or less."

"There is no inferiority complex unless the individual regards himself as inferior."

"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."

"Pity a person who must always maintain their superiority."

"The number of the sick is far less than the number of those who are merely discontented."

"We must distinguish between real inferiority and the feeling of inferiority."

"Fear is grief for evil."

"A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous."

"The person who has no sense of humor is a prisoner."

"Our concern should be to know: are we fulfilling our potential?"

"Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words."

"An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls."

"Discouragement is the saddest word in the English language."

"More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and to enjoy the pursuit of your goals."

"The ability to fight can also be a capacity to create."

"The meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment."

"Everybody has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put into every human heart."

"We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change."

"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."

"Every individual acts and is acted upon; is at once a doer and something done to."

"The chief condition on which life, health and success depend is that it shall be a full, digested, compacted experience."

"Remember always that the composer, if he is to take up pen and music paper, must always say to himself: I will write for the present."

"We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world, and we impoverish ourselves if we forget this errand."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."

"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth."

"If we had no hope, we could not carry on. Hope, and only hope, brings success."

"The need for superiority is the fundamental fact of human nature."

"Maturity means accepting responsibility for our actions."