You can be healed of depression if every... by Alfred Adler | We Heart Quotes

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You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

- Alfred Adler

Other quotes by Alfred Adler

It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.

- Alfred Adler

Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.

- Alfred Adler

Experience

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

- Alfred Adler

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

- Alfred Adler

Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.

- Alfred Adler

Politics Man

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

- Alfred Adler

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