As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.

One of the most revolutionary concepts to grow out of our clinical experience is the growing recognition that innermost core of man's nature - the deepest layers of his personality, the base of his 'animal nature' - is basically socialized, forward-moving, rational and realistic... He is realistically able to control himself, and he is incorrigibly socialized in his desires. There is no beast in man, there is only man in man.

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

The way of being with another person which is termed empathic...means temporarily living in their life, moving abut in it delicately without making judgment... to be with another in this way means that for the time being you lay aside the views and values you hold for yourself in order to enter the other's world without prejudice...a complex, demanding, strong yet subtle and gentle way of being.

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.