Anna Freud Quotes

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Life is challenging. I wish I could tell you that you’ll always be on top of the mountain, but the reality is that there are days when nothing will go right, when not only will you not be on top, you may not even be able to figure out which way is up. Do yourself a favor, and don’t make it any harder than it has to be. In those moments, be careful how you speak to yourself; be careful how you think of yourself; be careful how you conduct yourself; be careful how you develop yourself.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.

I think you just have to take life as it goes, and I believe you never get things put on you that you can't handle.

I just try to do what I can, control what I can, and let the rest handle itself.

When you have bad moments, you have to improve. You have to become stronger to deal with it, and I believe I have become stronger.

When life is hard, you have to change.

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

If you learn life's lessons, you will do well. If not, life will just continue to push you around. People do two things. Some just let life push them around. Others get angry and push back. But they push back against their boss, or their job, or their husband or wife. They do not know it's life that's pushing.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

All of us suffer difficulties in our lives. And if you say to yourself 'find a way,' you'll make it through.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

Life isn't fair. It's true, and you still have to deal with it. Whining about it rarely levels the playing field, but learning to rise above it is the ultimate reward.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living.

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

When you have tough times, and when you learn you can't be perfect in every situation, it's hard to accept, you know, because I still do expect that. But you just have to, because, you know, it's not about the situation. It's how you deal with it. You always have a choice.

We are all different. We all have different circumstances, and you have to cope with whatever it is, try not to dwell on things.