Quotes from Joshua Loth Liebman

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.

There comes a time in the development of every ego when it must love its neighbors or become a twisted and stunted personality.

As mature men and women we should regard our minds as a true democracy where all kinds of ideas and emotions should be given freedom of speech.

The unpleasant things in life make so much noise that we forget the silent operation of the good. Evil is aggressive, rampant, but good is quiet, undemonstrative.

By infinitely multiplying this necessity to conform, at the expense of developing the individual, unique 'self,' society succeeds in making a man 'good.' By frustrating his potential in numberless ways from the time he is born till the time he dies, civilization instills in him a pattern which is so rigid that he is often unable to express his true self at all.

We achieve inner health only through forgiveness - the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves