Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
Alfred AdlerRead
He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Focusing on pleasing others can lead to personal healing and happiness.
This quote by Alfred Adler emphasizes the transformative power of kindness and consideration for others. Adler suggests that by actively trying to please someone else every day, individuals struggling with melancholia can find a path to healing and emotional wellness in just two weeks, highlighting the therapeutic effects of altruism and connection.
Themes
HealingKindnessMental HealthAltruismHappiness
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about overcoming depression, you could use this quote to encourage compassion.
More from Alfred Adler
All quotes →War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
Alfred AdlerRead
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
Alfred AdlerRead
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
Alfred AdlerRead
All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest
Alfred AdlerRead
What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
Alfred AdlerRead
Similar quotes
It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
F. Scott FitzgeraldRead
Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
Alexander PopeRead
And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
Corrie Ten BoomRead
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin FranklinRead
What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.
Stephen KingRead
Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.
William BlakeRead