Quote of Anna Freud - We live trapped, between the churned-up...

Biography - Anna Freud:

Austrian-British psychoanalyst.
Born: 1895 - Died: 1982
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Austria
Austria

Quote

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.”
Anna Freud

Quotes about the past:

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
Albert Einstein

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
Gautama Buddha

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.”
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères

The future influences the present just as much as the past.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.”
Alexis de Tocqueville

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.”
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

All about the past...

Quotes about the future:

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.”
Seneca

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Citadelle

future

Man is the future of man.”
Francis Ponge

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
Albert Einstein

All about the future...

Anna Freud also said...

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.”
Anna Freud

time

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.”
Anna Freud

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?”
Anna Freud

My different personalities leave me in peace now.”
Anna Freud

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