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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  2. Psychiatrists today .. . see the irrational hostility that people everywhere vent upon one another as chiefly projected self-hate.

  3. Where there is no capacity to affirm another as a person in his own right there is no love. There is only masked fear.

  4. 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.

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