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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.

Rollo May

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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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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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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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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Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth.
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Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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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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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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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.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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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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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.

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