The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
ROLLO MAYFortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.
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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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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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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
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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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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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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person’s development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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Courage is required not only in a person’s occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
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