"There's still such chaos in me. Still so……" — Karen Horney
"There's still such chaos in me. Still so little firmly outlined. Just like my face: a formless mass that only takes on shape through the expression of the moment. The searching for our selves is the most agonizing"
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Karen Horney
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26 Quotes by Karen Horney
Karen Horney has 26 quotes on this site.
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Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view…
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The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work…
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There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.
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No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in…
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If I couldn't be pretty, I decided I would be smart.
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Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their…
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We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into…
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The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere,…
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Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world…
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That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the…
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To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.
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It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career…
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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
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Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat.
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