"Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures." — Gordon W. Allport

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals.

Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change.