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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.

Rollo May

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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Being Betray Express Idea Listen Original Own
Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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Beauty Experience Give Joy Peace Sense Simultaneously
Mass communication–wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued–presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)
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Appreciate Communication Daner Mass May Serious Something Technologically Value Wonder
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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Age Capacity Conformity Conviction Courage Hallmark Obstinately One Our Own Stand
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
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Arise Between Creativity Limitation Spontaneously Tension
Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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Fire Smithy Soul
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
The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
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Certain Come Evil Good One Ourselves Relationship Thing Unaffected
It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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Anxiety Conflict Constructive Going Long Ourselves Remind Signify So Solution Well
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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Being Faster Fiercely Grasp Habit Human Ironic Lost More Old Our Way Research Statistic Technical
The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.
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Always Between Buffer Danger Exist Nature Our Service Technology
The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.
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Become Differentiate Experience Feeling Many Mature Nuance Passionate Person Strong
It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.
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Amazing Come Ear Guide Hear Hint Intuition Live May Peron Sensitive
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
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.
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Against Around Defence Delight Good Tightly Truth Well Wound
Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
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Achievement Automatically Bound Come Day E Ach Freedom Gain Single

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