Moustakas, Clark

Quotes:

"Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets."

"When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness."

"When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently."

"Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him."

"The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself -- where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind."