Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
ROLLO MAYUnderstanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them.
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All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. … One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him.
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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.
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What anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings.
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Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
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The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one’s own convictions – not obstinately or defiantly
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When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence/
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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