People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
ROLLO MAYWe define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one’s total orientation to life.
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This is what our society needs – not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
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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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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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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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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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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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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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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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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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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
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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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There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
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