Bonaro Overstreet Quotes

Where there is no capacity to affirm another as a person in his own right there is no love. There is only masked fear.

Psychiatrists today . . . see the irrational hostility that people everywhere vent upon one another as chiefly projected self-hate.

No emotional crisis is wholly the product of outward circumstances. These may precipitate it. But what turns an objective situation into a subjectively critical one is the interpretation the individual puts upon it - the meaning it has in his emotional economy the way it affects his self-image.

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.