In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can’t eat them. — Anna Freud
Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be. — Anna Freud
Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown… they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter! — Anna Freud
Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself. — Anna Freud
How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished. — Anna Freud
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time. — Anna Freud
It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother’s emotions are — Anna Freud
Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls — Anna Freud
Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers — Anna Freud
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned. — 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. — Anna Freud
We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees. — Anna Freud
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. — Anna Freud
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work. — Anna Freud
What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection — Anna Freud
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically — Anna Freud