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Alice Miller quotes: One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.

One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.

Alice Miller quotes: We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.

We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.

Alice Miller quotes: Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.

Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.

Alice Miller quotes: They recount their earliest memories without any sympathy for the child they once were,

They recount their earliest memories without any sympathy for the child they once were,

Alice Miller quotes: Courage can be just as infectious as fear.

Courage can be just as infectious as fear.

Alice Miller quotes: What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

Alice Miller quotes: Nobody is born evil.

Nobody is born evil.

Alice Miller quotes: We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.

We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.

Alice Miller quotes: Disrespect is the weapon of the weak

Disrespect is the weapon of the weak

Alice Miller quotes: All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection.

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection.

Alice Miller quotes: The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.

The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.

Alice Miller quotes: Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.

Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.

Alice Miller quotes: Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

Alice Miller quotes: You gotta keep that in check - you got to.

You gotta keep that in check - you got to.

Alice Miller quotes: Tragic and painful state of being separated from his true self, to which doctors refer offhandedly as depression.

Tragic and painful state of being separated from his true self, to which doctors refer offhandedly as depression.

Alice Miller quotes: Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

Alice Miller quotes: For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.

For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.

Alice Miller quotes: Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing.

Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing.

Alice Miller quotes: A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one.

A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one.

Alice Miller quotes: Not to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered good manners in our culture.

Not to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered good manners in our culture.

Alice Miller quotes: Empathy grows as we learn.

Empathy grows as we learn.

Alice Miller quotes: Only the mourning for what one has missed at the crucial time can lead to real healing.

Only the mourning for what one has missed at the crucial time can lead to real healing.

Alice Miller quotes: Problems cannot be solved with words, but only through experience ...

Problems cannot be solved with words, but only through experience ...

Alice Miller quotes: Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

Alice Miller quotes: The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.

The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.

Alice Miller quotes: Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy.

Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy.

Alice Miller quotes: If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.

If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.

Alice Miller quotes: That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds not to have been loved just as one truly was cannot heal without the work of mourning.

That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds
not to have been loved just as one truly was
cannot heal without the work of mourning.

Alice Miller quotes: Cruelty is the opposite of love, and its traumatic effect, far from being reduced, is actually reinforced if it is presented as a sign of love.

Cruelty is the opposite of love, and its traumatic effect, far from being reduced, is actually reinforced if it is presented as a sign of love.

Alice Miller quotes: An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.

An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.

Alice Miller quotes: There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.

There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.