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A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.

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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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Add Apathy Cowardice Long Run
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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Day Decision Dignity Make Multitude People Worth
Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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Age Come Love Only Require Understanding Wisdom
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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Alone Fear Find Many Oneself People Suffer
Therapy isn’t curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human.
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Curing Explore Help Himself Mean Person Somebody Something Therapy
The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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Act Against Arise Being Creative Human Limit Struggle
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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Deep Feeling Hope Imprint Keeper Meaningful Memory Past Time Upon
People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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Become Change Dangerous People Seat Too Way
Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.
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Deed Establish Esteem Largely Perform Self Society Those Try Violence
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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Always Being Dependent Dual Human Itself Reality Truth Upon
To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.
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Believe ContrAction Doubt Fully Greater Moment Presuppose Respect Same
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us?
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Courage Effect Inescapable Intimacy Know Outlet Relationship Require Risk
One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
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Age Anxiety Aware Become Blessing Few Fierce Living One Ourselbeevs
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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Achieve Anxiety Capacity Courage Freedom Meet Write
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.
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Constructive Deal First Learn Live Moment Necesaaty Present Reality Thing Time
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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Become Ethical Factory Mithilism Person Result Science Want

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