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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.

Rollo May

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.
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Accompany Emotion Fulfilling Goal Happiness Joy Life Nation Rather
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Apathy Hate Love Opposite
What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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Art Experience Fountainhead Frost Human Imagination
Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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Being Conscious Creativity Encounter Human Intensively World
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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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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We 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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Assumption Define Meaning Region
Fortunately, 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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Argue Fortunately Good Longer Love Necessary Self
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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Make Myth Sense Senseless Way World
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
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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Answer Between Change Energy Field Human Met Passion Reach Relationship
There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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Affect Authentic Change Freedom History Human Inner Later Sooner
Suffering is nature’s way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.
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Attitude Behavior Every Mature Mistaken Moment Nonegocentric Peron Suffer Way
The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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Amazing Best Know Love Ourselves Thing Way
One does not become fully human painlessly.
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Become Does Human Not One Painlessly
One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
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Age Anxiety Aware Become Blessing Few Fierce Living One Ourselbeevs

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