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Yes. Adlerian psychology is a psychology of courage. Your unhappiness cannot be blamed on your past or your environment. And it isn’t that you lack competence. You just lack courage. One might say you are lacking in the courage to be happy.
We sometimes make excuses for ourselves to protect us from being hurt by rejection or failure. Which thus leads us to being unhappy. Then justify our unhappiness by blaming it on circumstance
“There’s a dark well in everyone, I think, and it never goes dry. But you drink from it at your peril. That water is poison.”
― Fairy Tale
― Fairy Tale
“The strength I’m looking for isn’t the kind where you win or lose. I’m not after a wall that’ll repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that outside power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things—unfairness, misfortune, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“Sometimes I fantasize I will discover the book that describes the location of the volume I have been searching for.”
― A Short Stay in Hell
― A Short Stay in Hell
“Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves,”
― Penpal
― Penpal
“My memories don’t feel as though they’ve been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds that might germinate again if the rain falls. And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.”
― The Memory Police
― The Memory Police
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