"We can never do the right thing as……" — Alice Miller
"We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else."
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65 Quotes by Alice Miller
Alice Miller has 65 quotes on this site.
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Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According…
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What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells…
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Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people…
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Courage can be just as infectious as fear.
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People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents,…
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Empathy grows as we learn.
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Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as…
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The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.
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Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the…
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People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had…
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Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is…
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The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never…
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I didn't have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn't even get…
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,…
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Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.
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I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.
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I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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