Quote by Sigmund Freud
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intellige

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. – Sigmund Freud

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Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. – Sigmund Freud

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Ordinary
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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. – Sigmund Freud

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Dreams
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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. – Sigmund Freud

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Men
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A grownup is a child with layers on. – Woody Harrelson

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Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. – Sainte-Beuve, Portraits littéraires, 1862

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Inner Child

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. – Gaston Bachelard

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Inner Child

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. – Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943

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Inner Child

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I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldnt want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith – Ive had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe Id like to be J. K. Rowling, but Ill settle for second best. – Wilbur Smith

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Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. – Isak Dinesen

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He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it. – Proverb

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Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise. – Stanislav Grof

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