“So if you find out how you prevent yourself from growing, from using your potential, you have away of increasing this, making life richer, making you more and more capable of mobilizing yourself. And our potential is based upon a very peculiar attitude: to live and review every fresh second” IfsAttitudeGrowingCapableReviewsPeculiar Author:Frederick Salomon Perls
“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.” MenAbleMovingDesireGrowsAnimalGrowingPersonalityConceptsCoreRationalRecognitionRevolutionaryBeastRealisticLayersClinicals Author:Carl Rogers
“No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.” SocialCommunityGroupsPersonalityHealthyStructureDependentSocial Groups Author:Rollo May
“Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.” HumansDisguiseInterfere Author:Frederick Salomon Perls
“I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first Holy Communion.” FirstsMadeParentBornChurchBloodHolyCatholicRaisedCommunionRequestBorn And RaisedHoly Communion Author:Tom Araya
“Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale.” CultureNamesViolentOppressionTolerateBullyTwistedRationale Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'” IfsKnowsKidsTodayUsedMotherFatherDeeperWho I AmWhy Me Author:LeBron James
“It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.” PeoplePlayRaceClassComfortPrejudicePlentyEase Author:Gordon Allport
“What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.” WayCultureSocialEconomicConditionsConditioningHypnosisCulture And ReligionHistory And Culture Author:Deepak Chopra
“I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.” TryingFiguresCollegeCatholicismEastern Author:Jeff Ament