I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been ga… - Sigmund Freud

…much will be gained if we succeed in transforming your hysterical misery into common unhappiness. With a mental life that has been restored to health, you will be better armed against that unhappiness.

The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.

thanks to the discrepancies between people’s thoughts and their actions, and to the diversity of their wishful impulses.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.