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Alice Miller Quotes

Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery of our truth about the unique history of our childhood.

Alice Miller

Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery of our truth about the unique history of our childhood.

Tags: charismatic connection, mental illness, psychology, serena jade, soul mates, the drama of the gifted child

For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.

Alice Miller

For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.

Tags: indestructible, rising above your past, rising from the ashes, soul, survival, survivor

About Author
Alice Miller may refer to:

Alice Miller (politician) (born 1939), American politician in the state of Vermont
Alice Miller (psychologist) (1923–2010), Polish-born Swiss psychologist
Alice Miller (golfer) (born 1956), American golfer
Alice Miller (pilot), Israeli who successfully petitioned for the Israeli Air Force pilot course to be opened to women
Alice Duer Miller (1874–1942), American writer and poet
Alice D. G. Miller (1894–1985), American screenwriter
Alice L. Miller (born 1944), researcher, writer, and professor

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows...

Alice Miller

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows...

Tags: education, learning, empathy, words

Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.

Alice Miller

Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.

Tags: psychology

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

Alice Miller

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

Tags: respect

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

Alice Miller

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

Tags: abuse, bullying, child abuse, childhood trauma, freedom, healing, kids, liberty, peace

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection.

Alice Miller

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection.

Tags: child abuse, child development, child neglect, self protection, violence

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

Alice Miller

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

Tags: truth, beautiful, good, help

Thus he spent his whole life searching for his own truth, but it remained hidden to him because he had learned at a very young age to hate himself for what his mother had done to him. (...) But not on...

Alice Miller

Thus he spent his whole life searching for his own truth, but it remained hidden to him because he had learned at a very young age to hate himself for what his mother had done to him. (...) But not on...

Tags: escapism