Great Throughts Treasury

"Love is clutched at in preference to the laborious process of changing from within."

"Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression."

"It would not be going too far to assert that… conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and hwo is… unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity."

"Fortunately [psycho]analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself will still remain a very effective therapist."

"The many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can be of great beauty, but they are rarely built for eternity, and frequently they cannot tolerate too heavy a burden without collapsing."

"If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride."

"Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning."

"No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time."