Best 22 quotes of Anna Freud on MyQuotes

Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

I am glad that I do not have any children.

If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.

Sex is something you do. Sexuality is something you are.

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

The selection of leadership must follow practical considerations. Maybe I look at things too pessimistically?

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

Instead of turning away from them (war conditions) in instinctive horror, as people seem to expect, the child may turn towards them with primitive excitement. The real danger is not that the child, caught up all innocently in the whirlpool of war, will be shocked into illness. The danger lies in the fact that the destruction ranging in the outer world may meet the very real aggressiveness ranging in the inside of the child