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One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

Sigmund Freud
Giving Up, Pleasure, Uncertain

If you can't do it, give up!

Sigmund Freud
Giving Up, Giving, Ifs

When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego which can only be described as a setting up of the object inside the ego, as it occurs in melancholia; the exact nature of this substitution is as yet unknown to us.

Sigmund Freud
Giving Up, Ego, Persons
Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.

Sigmund Freud
Life, Giving Up, Pain
Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Sigmund Freud
Giving Up, Mean, Goal
Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.16, Courier Dover Publications

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