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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.

Rollo May

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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Being Brief Essence Exist Human Moment Planet Spinning
One does not become fully human painlessly.
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Become Does Human Not One Painlessly
The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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Act Against Arise Being Creative Human Limit Struggle
Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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Being Courage Make Necessary Possible
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
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.
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Against Around Defence Delight Good Tightly Truth Well Wound
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
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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Construct Depression Future Inability
One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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Central Fulfill Life Need One Own Potential
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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Communication Community Intimacy Mutual Read Understanding Valuing
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive – to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before
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Love Mena Negative Ourselves Positive Well
Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One’s religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.
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Attitude Concern Condition Die Individual Life Point Religion Ultimate
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.
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Being Faster Fiercely Grasp Habit Human Ironic Lost More Old Our Way Research Statistic Technical
When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence/
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Care Fall Feel Love More Myself Treat Valuable
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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Against Capacity Confound Counterfeited Cover Element Fight However Injustice
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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Anxiety Conflict Constructive Going Long Ourselves Remind Signify So Solution Well

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