Being Horney Quotes & Sayings

Wherever the intention of each might lie, we are together being carried along at the same speed down the same river of time. — Haruki Murakami

To experience conflicts knowingly, though it may be distressing, can be an invaluable asset. The more we face our own conflicts and seek out our own solutions, the more inner freedom and strength we will gain. Only when we are willing to bear the brunt can we approximate the ideal of being the captain of our ship. Spurious tranquillity rooted in inner dullness is anything but enviable. It is bound to make us weak and an easy prey to any kind of influence. — Karen Horney

I wonder, said the Lord I wonder if I know the answer any more. — Norman Mailer

A normal human being ... does not exist. — Karen Horney

I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally. — Ben Sollee

I don't think I have a demographic. I was at Comic-Con in San Diego recently, and I was doing a signing, and my line was all military guys, young girls, housewives and guys in wheelchairs. There was just everybody all over the place. — Pamela Adlon

It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned. — Jacob Bronowski

Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out. — Criss Jami

An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there. — Paramahansa Yogananda

They're girls," she replied briefly. "They were born in danger and will live their lives in that condition, regardless of circumstance. — Diana Gabaldon

If you learn to develop an abundant mentality you will not be envious of others, you will celebrate their successes, you share in their joys and pains; don't see life as a competition but a complimentary. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

What does it say about me that I'm jealous of the lives of fictional characters? — Alyssa Goodnight

Liadan," he said, staring intently at the ground.
"Yes," I whispered.
"Don't wed that man Eamonn. Tell him, if he takes you, he's a dead."
Bran — Juliet Marillier

Today alcohol and tobacco are available, and people spend considerably more on these very unsatisfactory euphorics, pseudo-stimulants and sedatives than they are ready to spend on the education of their children. — Aldous Huxley

Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy ... And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense. — Karen Horney

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage. — Mahatma Gandhi