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One Quotes by Alice Miller
- People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had to solve their own problems…
- It is not true that evil, destructiveness , and perversion inevitably form part of human existence, no matter how often this is maintained. But it…
- Only the mourning for what one has missed at the crucial time can lead to real healing.
- 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…
- Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
- Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the…
- One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.
- One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to…
- In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are…
- Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy. Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents…
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