Quote of the Day (Alfred Adler, on the Importance of Setting Goals)

“In each mind there is the conception of a goal or ideal to get beyond the present state, and to overcome the present deficiencies and difficulties by postulating a concrete aim for the future. By means of this concrete aim or goal the individual can think and feel himself superior to the difficulties of the present because he has in mind his success of the future. Without the sense of a goal individual activity would cease to have any meaning.”— Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology Alfred Adler (1870-1937), The Science of Living (1929)

Quote of the Day (Alfred Adler, on Principles)

“It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”— Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler (1870–1937), quoted in Phyllis Bottome, Alfred Adler: Apostle of Freedom (1939)

Quote of the Day (Alfred Adler, on Our Relation to the Meanings of Situations)

“Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.”— Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler (1870–1937), What Life Should Mean to You (1937)