Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
ROLLO MAYThis 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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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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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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Therapy isn’t curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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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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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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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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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
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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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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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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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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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Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
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