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Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist. — Alice Duer Miller

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

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

It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime
When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time. — Alice Duer Miller

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

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

Courage can be just as infectious as fear. — Alice Miller

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

Nobody is born evil. — Alice Miller

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth. — Alice Duer Miller

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

Disrespect is the weapon of the weak — Alice Miller

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it. — Alice Duer Miller

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

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

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

Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action ... — Alice Duer Miller

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

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

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

The strongest will is the will that knows how to bend. — Alice Duer Miller

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger, but faces it head on — Alice Duer Miller

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this ... — Alice Duer Miller

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man. — Alice Duer Miller

Susan had decided to sit by the pool at the hotel with a copy of a book by Alice Miller called The Drama of the Gifted Child. — Robert B. Parker

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron. — Alice Duer Miller

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

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

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion. — Alice Duer Miller

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

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others. — Alice Duer Miller

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

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

And now too late, we see these things are one:
The art is sacrifice and self-control
And who loves beauty must be stern of soul. — Alice Duer Miller

No one really believes in equality who's on top. — Alice Duer Miller

Empathy grows as we learn. — Alice Miller

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

It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect. — Alice Duer Miller

People who deal in truth themselves recognize it when they hear it, just as people who deal in diamonds recognize a real stone when they see it. — Alice Duer Miller

In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live. — Alice Duer Miller

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