Alice Miller

"When we stop analyzing and start feeling, real understanding begins."

"The relationship we have with ourselves determines all other relationships."

"Death teaches us what living authentically means."

"Every person contains multitudes; the goal is integration, not elimination."

"Humor often masks pain; laughter can be a way of not feeling."

"The time we spend in silence is often the time we refuse to listen to ourselves."

"Work that honors our authentic self is work that heals us."

"We cannot give what we were not given, but we can learn to give it to ourselves."

"The strength to face our truth is the strength that sets us free."

"Fear of our own power keeps us small in ways that serve others' agendas."

"Education without emotional awareness perpetuates blindness."

"The body keeps the score of all our emotional wounds and unprocessed trauma."

"Only those people who were allowed to be angry in childhood can also feel appropriately angry as adults."

"Art is the royal road to the unconscious, where healing begins."

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

"The child has never deceived us. We have deceived ourselves about the child."

"Rage is the only emotion that permits us to feel alive."

"Our task is not to produce obedient children, but conscious human beings."

"Freedom and independence are achieved only through awareness of our true feelings."

"The price of freedom is the loss of childhood."

"Every neurosis is a creative attempt to solve an impossible situation."

"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."

"Our parents did the best they could with the consciousness they had."

"Mirroring is the foundation of all authentic human connection."

"The capacity to feel without judgment is the beginning of wisdom."

"We teach what we needed to learn."

"The greatest gift parents can give their children is permission to feel."

"Lies can destroy a child's sense of reality more effectively than any trauma."

"Creativity is the solution to emotional suffering, not its product."

"Knowledge without feeling is sterile and leads to destructive behavior."