The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.
ROLLO MAYEvery human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, “This is me and the world be damned!” Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society – Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.
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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
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Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one’s total orientation to life.
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It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.
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Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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