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The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one’s own convictions – not obstinately or defiantly

Rollo May

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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Habit Human Being Ironic Lost Way
The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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Free People Purpose Pyschothraphy Set
Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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Beauty Experience Give Joy Peace Sense Simultaneously
Courage is required not only in a person’s occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
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Courage Crucial Decision Freedom Hour Little Occasional Only Own Person Place REquired
Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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History Jhuman Often Person Rebel Recall Saint Same
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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Deep Feeling Hope Imprint Keeper Meaningful Memory Past Time Upon
Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, “This is me and the world be damned!” Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society – Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.
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Against Always Culture Down Every Human Being Leader Line One Point Stand World
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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Conformity Courage Cowardice Opposite Society
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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Attain Courage Deciosn Decision From Day Multitude People Require Worth
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Apathy Hate Love Opposite
Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth.
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Citizen Courage Enable Find Hero Ideal Necessary Order Own Society Wisdom
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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Day Decision Dignity Make Multitude People Worth
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
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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Achievement Automatically Bound Come Day E Ach Freedom Gain Single
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
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Anxiety Condition Essential Human
In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
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Capacity Constructive Creativity Must One Order Ope Solitude Use

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