Karen Horney

"The person who is not able to live in society is either a god or a wild beast."

"Knowing ourselves is hard, but trying is the beginning of all wisdom."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic chords, we feel every emotion they feel."

"The only person who can make you happy is you."

"Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things."

"Concern with oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."

"Moving toward people as a dominant interpersonal strategy creates special vulnerability."

"We cannot change anything until we accept it."

"Our current obsession with psychological problems is a sign of our cultural distress."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but proceeding in spite of it."

"The struggle between incompatible or contradictory wishes is the source of human suffering."

"Everyone has a neurotic kernel."

"Self-hatred is the psychological disease of our time."

"The real task is not in understanding what neurosis is, but in living."

"Intimacy requires the capacity to be authentic."

"We must learn to love our neighbors as ourselves without losing our self."

"The capacity to be alone is essential for psychological health."

"Success is not the same as accomplishment."

"What we want in our friends is unrealistic perfection."

"Human relationships are the most precious resource."

"People need others to survive, but they also need space to grow."

"The basis of childhood neurosis is parental indifference."

"Our conflicts represent the clash between our real self and idealized self."

"To know ourselves is to be grounded in reality."

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

"Growth requires us to do things we fear."

"The desire for power is a fundamental human drive."

"Psychoanalysis should help us adapt to society, but not conformity."

"We are not born with a fixed character, we develop it."

"Suffering is a sign that something is wrong, not that something is right."