5 Quotes & Sayings By Bonaro Overstreet

Bonaro Overstreet was born in Louisiana, was raised in western Arkansas, and is now a resident of the State of Washington. He received his BS degree in secondary education from Ouachita Baptist University, his MS degree in secondary education from the University of Arkansas, and his MA degree in English from the University of Washington. He served as a teacher, principal, superintendent, vice-principal, principal supervisor, district administrator, State Superintendent, and assistant commissioner for Washington State Department of Education. He has written curriculum materials used by teachers throughout the nation Read more

His book "The Bonaro Overstreet Reader" is available on Amazon.com. The latest novel is "The Sojourner" which is available on Amazon.com.

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No emotional crisis is wholly the product of outward circumstances. These may precipitate it. But what turns an objective situation into a subjectively critical one is the interpretation the individual puts upon it - the meaning it has in his emotional economy the way it affects his self-image. Bonaro Overstreet
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Psychiatrists today .. . see the irrational hostility that people everywhere vent upon one another as chiefly projected self-hate. Bonaro Overstreet
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Where there is no capacity to affirm another as a person in his own right there is no love. There is only masked fear. Bonaro Overstreet
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Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves. Bonaro Overstreet