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title: "1 Rewarding Life Quotes By Karl A. Menninger"
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> [Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-a-menninger/hope-is-an-adventure-a-going-forward-a-confident-search-for-a/)

[Karl A. Menninger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-a-menninger/)

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## More by Karl A. Menninger

> [The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-a-menninger/the-friends-who-listen-to-us-are-the-ones-we-move-toward-and-we-want/)

[Karl A. Menninger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-a-menninger/)

> [The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-a-menninger/the-voice-of-the-intelligence-is-drowned-out-by-the-roar-of-fear/)

[Karl A. Menninger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-a-menninger/)

> [Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-a-menninger/our-lives-are-shaped-by-those-who-love-us-as-well-as-those-who-refuse/)

[Karl A. Menninger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-a-menninger/)

> [The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-a-menninger/the-adjuration-to-be-normal-seems-shockingly-repellent-to-me-i-see/)

[Karl A. Menninger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-a-menninger/)

> [It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-a-menninger/it-was-his-optimism-that-freud-bequeathed-to-america-and-it-was-the/)

[Karl A. Menninger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-a-menninger/)

> [Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-a-menninger/neurotic-means-he-is-not-as-sensible-as-i-am-and-psychotic-means-he-s/)

[Karl A. Menninger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-a-menninger/)

> [Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-a-menninger/chess-is-a-more-highly-symbolic-game-but-the-aggressions-are/)

[Karl A. Menninger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-a-menninger/)

> [Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-a-menninger/unrest-of-spirit-is-a-mark-of-life/)

[Karl A. Menninger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-a-menninger/)

> [“We want him to see that as a result of being parented by imperfect parents, he (she) chooses the wrong people for the right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-a-menninger/we-want-him-to-see-that-as-a-result-of-being-parented-by-imperfect/)

[Karl A. Menninger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-a-menninger/)

> [It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-a-menninger/it-is-hard-for-a-free-fish-to-understand-what-is-happening-to-a/)

[Karl A. Menninger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-a-menninger/)

> [The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-a-menninger/the-voice-of-the-intelligence-is-drowned-out-by-the-roar-of-fear-it/)

[Karl A. Menninger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-a-menninger/)

> [Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-a-menninger/set-up-as-an-ideal-the-facing-of-reality-as-honestly-and-as/)

[Karl A. Menninger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-a-menninger/)

> [We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-a-menninger/we-have-come-to-see-that-just-as-the-child-must-learn-to-love-wisely/)

[Karl A. Menninger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-a-menninger/)

> [To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-a-menninger/to-know-thyself-must-mean-to-know-the-malignancy-of-one-s-own/)

[Karl A. Menninger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-a-menninger/)

> [Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-a-menninger/hope-is-a-necessity-for-normal-life-and-the-major-weapon-against-the/)

[Karl A. Menninger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-a-menninger/)

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