38 Quotes by Anna Freud

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Instead of turning away from them (war conditions) in instinctive horror, as people seem to expect, the child may turn towards them with primitive excitement. The real danger is not that the child, caught up all innocently in the whirlpool of war, will be shocked into illness. The danger lies in the fact that the destruction ranging in the outer world may meet the very real aggressiveness ranging in the inside of the child

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.