We can help a person to be himself by our own willingness to steep ourselves temporarily in his world, in his private feelings and experiences. By ou…

- Clark Moustakas

Creative life is always based on the values of the self, not on the values of the system.

- Clark Moustakas

You can at any time decide to alter the course of your life; no one can take that away.

- Clark Moustakas

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 solit…

- Clark Moustakas

A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. The only way that boundaries make any sense at all is through freedom.

- Clark Moustakas

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.

- Clark Moustakas

A compassionate willingess is required - as is the courage to live before the fact, before the understanding, before any rational support or certaint…

- Clark Moustakas

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.

- Clark Moustakas

The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and thr…

- Clark Moustakas