Depression is the inability to construct a future.
ROLLO MAYMany 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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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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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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 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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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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We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one’s total orientation to life.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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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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The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
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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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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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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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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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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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