Sigmund Freud on Mindfulness Quotes

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."

"Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization."

"A great deal of anxiety is fundamentally a fear of the conscience."

"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."

"Great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual working in solitude."

"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."

"Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill."

"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water."

"Thought is action in rehearsal."

"The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature."

"Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy."

"The ego is not master in its own house."

"He who has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret."

"Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength."

"The aim of psychoanalysis is to make the unconscious conscious."

"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."

"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."

"The tension between the demands of conscience and the actual performances of the ego is experienced as a sense of guilt."

"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."

"Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways."

"The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief."

"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization."

"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of the subconscious from which it rises."

"When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has."

"Neurotic anxiety is transformed into a fear of some external danger."

"Illusion is no less an illusion because we are unable to disprove it."

"We are what we are because we have been what we have been."

"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'"

"In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart."

"Real danger is a danger which is known, and realistic anxiety is anxiety about such a known danger."

"Where id was, there ego shall be."

"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."

"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them."