"Follow your heart but take your brain with you."
"No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes."
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Source: From a new translation of Progress in Individual Psychology by Alfred Adler, in the AAISF/ATP Archives, 1923.
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