Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
ROLLO MAYThe hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one’s own convictions – not obstinately or defiantly
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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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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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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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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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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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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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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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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A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.
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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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Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity.
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Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
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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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The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning “heart.” Thus just as one’s heart, by pumping blood to one’s arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function.
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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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