Alexandra KordosiCounselling Psychologist / Psychotherapist (MA.,BSc.)

Philosophical Thoughts

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves"
Carl G. Jung

"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people"
Carl G. Jung

"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it"
Carl G. Jung

"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate"
Carl G. Jung

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes"
Carl G. Jung

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live"
Jean–Paul Sartre

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you"
Jean–Paul Sartre

"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do"
Jean–Paul Sartre

"The time is always right to do what is right"
Martin – Luther King

"Life itself still remains a very effective therapist"
Karen Horney

"The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization"
Karen Horney

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change"
Carl Rogers

"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity"
Sigmund Freud

"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love"
Sigmund Freud

"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world"
Sigmund Freud

"Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another"
Sigmund Freud

"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either"
Albert Einstein

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new"
Albert Einstein

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen"
Albert Einstein

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"
Albert Einstein

"The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well"
Alfred Adler

"It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them"
Alfred Adler

"There is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself"
Merleau – Ponty

"We must not, therefore, wonder whether we really perceive a world, we must instead say: the world is what we perceive"
Merleau – Ponty

"I become through my relation to the Thou; as I become I, I say Thou. All real living is meeting"
Martin Buber

"It is in the space between inner and outer world, which is also the space between people - the transitional space - that intimate relationships and creativity occur"
D.W. Winnicott

"Recognition is always mutual... By our very enjoyment of the other's confirming response, we recognize her or him in return"
Jessica Benjamin

"Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play"
Heraclitus

"The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being"
Socrates

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned"
Buddha

"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger"
Buddha

"The mind is everything. What you think you become"
Buddha