Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
ROLLO MAYLife comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.
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Vanity and narcissism – the compulsive need to be admired and praised – undermine one’s courage, for one then fights on someone else’s conviction rather than one’s own.
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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 central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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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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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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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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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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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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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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