Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
ROLLO MAYAnxiety 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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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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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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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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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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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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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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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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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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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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