Quotes from Willard Gaylin

We are what we seem to be.

Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.

Feeling good and feeling bad are not necessarily opposites. Both at least involve feelings. Any feeling is a reminder of life. The worst 'feeling' evidently is non-feeling.

Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.

Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life

I not only think that we will tamper with Mother Nature, I think Mother wants us to.

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.

To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.