To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a … - Karen Horney

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I like the fact that people come together who have shared values, but I don't believe that a man died 2,000 years ago and was crucified on a cross to save me from my original sin.

Karen Horney

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

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No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time

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There is no such thing as a normal psychology that holds for all people.

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the idea of a finished human product not only appears presumptuous but even, in my opinion, lacks any strong appeal. Life is struggle and striving, development and growth - and analysis is one of the means that can help in this process. Certainly its positive accomplishments are important, but also the striving itself is of intrinsic value.

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It would not be going too far to assert that. . . conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and who is. . . unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.

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Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?

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