Alice Miller

Psychologist Psychoanalyst Swiss-Polish 1923 – 2010

Swiss-Polish psychoanalyst who criticized authoritarian parenting and childhood trauma.

388 quotes

"Hope sustains us through darkness."
Hope
"Courage is the willingness to be vulnerable."
Courage
"Change is the only constant."
Change
"Education should awaken the soul, not just the mind."
Education
"Knowledge is power only when it serves truth."
Knowledge
"Time is the canvas on which we paint our lives."
Time
"Truth liberates those who dare to speak it."
Truth
"Freedom is the right to be ourselves."
Freedom
"Peace is the absence of internal conflict."
Peace
"Nature heals those who listen to it."
Nature
"Art is testimony to the human spirit."
Art
"The body keeps the score of what the mind refuses to remember."
Truth
"If we could learn to listen to children, we would discover the secrets of human development."
Education
"Poisonous pedagogy teaches children to suppress their feelings and obey authority without question."
Freedom
"The child's body remembers what the conscious mind wants to forget."
Life
"Our task is not to educate children but to help them discover their own truth."
Knowledge
"Compassion for ourselves is the foundation of compassion for others."
Kindness
"Repressed feelings do not disappear; they accumulate in the body as tension and disease."
Health
"The greatest gift we can give children is permission to feel what they feel."
Family
"Hatred is always the product of suppressed love and suppressed truth."
Wisdom
"We cannot change what we do not acknowledge."
Change
"The body speaks a language the mind refuses to hear."
Strength
"To find our authentic self, we must first grieve the child we were not allowed to be."
Courage
"Every human being has the right to become aware of their own truth."
Freedom
"Art and creativity are the languages through which the body expresses what words cannot."
Art
"Enlightenment is not about transcending emotions but integrating them fully."
Wisdom
"The fear we feel as children shapes our entire existence as adults."
Fear
"We are what we experienced, not what we were told to be."
Truth
"Authentic power comes from honoring our own feelings and needs."
Power
"The price of obedience is the loss of self."
Freedom