If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
ROLLO MAYJoy, 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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What anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings.
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Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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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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This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.
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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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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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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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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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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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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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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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All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
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