The best Quotes by Alfred Adler

Follow your heart. But don't forget to bring your brain.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Don't ask what life is giving you, ask what you are giving.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

The heart can be tough to change, but the mind can be tough to persuade.

You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.

Already I can see the chain reaction. The chemical precursors that signal the onset of an emotion designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason.

People can't find their heart until they lose their head.

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Brom: "Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe."

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

Principle is okay up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.

An ideal is only an ideal after all. As long as you embrace that ideal, the friction with reality will continue to increase. So you will someday face reality and will have to pay the price for your compromises.

Never put passion in front of principle, even if you win, you'll lose!

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

Time after time after time I do all this shit for other people, and then I wake up and I'm empty. I have nothing.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;
Live for others, and you will live again.

Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else.

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Does it really need a reason to help somebody?

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Well you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him!

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.

The cautious are wary of their enemies.
The wise are also wary of their friends.

Slow and steady may not always win the race, but at least it doesn't end up splattered on the walls.

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There is always an opportunity for safety after danger passes.

Danger? I look on the wild side. I laugh in the face of danger!

Quick question. Is the whole "putting us in mortal danger" going to be a regular thing?

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Dangers await only those who do not react to life.

Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

Sometimes the perilous path is the only path.

Without friends, what are we surviving for? "Good little Harfoots, stick to the path, flee every danger." Heaven forbid we explore something new once!

The human response to danger is fight or flight, but an eagle's response is fight and flight.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.