I don't mind saying in advance that in my opinion jealousy is normal and healthy. Jealousy arises out of the fact that children love. If they have no…

- Donald Woods Winnicott

Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.

- Donald Woods Winnicott

There is no such thing as a baby, there is a baby and someone.

- Donald Woods Winnicott

Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself... and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation.

- Donald Woods Winnicott

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

- Donald Woods Winnicott

It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in be…

- Donald Woods Winnicott

Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. …

- Donald Woods Winnicott

The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul.

- Donald Woods Winnicott

What is a normal child like? Does he just eat and grow and smile sweetly? No, that is not what he is like. The normal child, if he has confidence in …

- Donald Woods Winnicott