top of page
"It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Family quotes

"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"

"We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did-a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor."

"Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys."
Explore more quotes by Anna Freud

"Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself."

"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."

"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees."

"What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me."

"We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work."
bottom of page