Creative Quotations from Karen Horney (1885-1952)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Karen Horney
(1885-1952) born on Sep 16

US psychoanalyst, writer. She funded the American Institute of Psychoanalysis, 1941.

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Fortunately, analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.

Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	In "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations," by James B. Simpson, 1988.
R:	"Seduction and Betrayal," address, 1972, Vassar College; in "Seduction And Betrayal: Women and Literature," 1974.
A:	"Feminine Psychology," "The Flight from Womanhood," 1926.
N:	In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
K:	In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997.