Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.

One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.

The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.

The root of creativity is found in the need to repair the good object destroyed during the depressive phase.

Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.

It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.

the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

Love is like war easy to begin but hard to end.

I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle.

It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.

Only when you know how to die can you know how to live.

The day will happen whether or not you get up.

it's not until my third cup of coffee that I am fully awake and willing to face the consequences of that condition.

Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that’s the way of the world.

The only way to be who you want to be is by being what you haven't yet been.

All bayonets are bad.