People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
GORDON ALLPORTLove received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs of the individual.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, “I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn’t like.”
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The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.
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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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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.
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A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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