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From Quotes by Alice Miller
- People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both in their youth…
- Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined as child-rearing. It is…
- For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.
- It is not true that evil, destructiveness , and perversion inevitably form part of human existence, no matter how often this is maintained. But it…
- If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.
- 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…
- 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…
- There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.
- 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…
- Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling…
- The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths…
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