From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
GORDON ALLPORTLove received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume … that we really know the score…. [But] this is not an easy assignment.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?
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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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We cannot know the young child’s personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed.
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