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Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Rollo May

People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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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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It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.
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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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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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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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A mien which seems to say, “You are looking at somebody now.” For this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
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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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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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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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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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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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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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Depression is the inability to construct a future.

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