Best Alice Miller Quotes
- The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place in their own… Abused
- All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection All
- Disrespect is the weapon of the weak Disrespect
- You gotta keep that in check - you got to. Check
- He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look facts in the… Absence
- Only the mourning for what one has missed at the crucial time can lead to real healing. Crucial
- Ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually has the last… Authentic
- Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history. Belief
- Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding. Anyone
- It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought. Been
- The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation. Acknowledge
- If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it,… Criticize
- Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. Anger
- Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a… Calls
- Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn… Attentiveness
- Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and… Beaten
- It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that… Allowed
- We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood. Childhood
- The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within… Abuse
- Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. Contempt
- The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and… Character
- There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all. All
- Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it… Able
- Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to… Bodies
- The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on… Achievement