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.
ROLLO MAYThe ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.
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When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
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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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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.
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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 nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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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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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. … One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him.
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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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