Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
ROLLO MAYThis personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
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Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.
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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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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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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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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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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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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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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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