Karen Horney

"The greatest obstacle to growth is the belief that we have already arrived."

"Our culture teaches us to be afraid of our own power."

"Competition can serve as either a bridge or a barrier between people."

"The process of analysis itself can sometimes create the very problems it seeks to cure."

"We inherit conflicts from our parents, and we pass them to our children, unless we break the cycle."

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance with reality."

"The shoulds we impose upon ourselves are prisons of our own design."

"Honesty with oneself is the foundation upon which all other virtues rest."

"We are all wounded healers, carrying our own pain while trying to help others."

"The pursuit of perfection is the pursuit of nothing real."

"Our defenses are often more familiar to us than our authentic selves."

"Love that demands we cease to grow is not love, but possession."

"The capacity for self-awareness is both our greatest gift and our heaviest burden."

"We cannot change what we do not acknowledge."

"Real security comes not from control, but from acceptance."

"The voice of conscience often speaks quietly, which is why we must listen carefully."

"Our relationships are mirrors in which we see ourselves reflected."

"The pursuit of happiness often leads us away from happiness itself."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the willingness to act despite it."

"We underestimate the power of simple human kindness and connection."

"The neurotic pays with suffering what the psychopath avoids through denial."

"What we call success is often merely the absence of failure."

"The search for meaning is more important than the meaning we find."

"Our greatest potential lies dormant within the parts of ourselves we refuse to acknowledge."

"To grow is to constantly become a stranger to who we were."

"The quality of our inner life determines the quality of our outer circumstances."

"We are each the authors of our own greatest obstacles."

"Patience with oneself is the rarest and most necessary form of patience."

"The unconscious mind speaks in the language of symbols and dreams."

"What we believe about ourselves becomes our greatest truth or our greatest lie."