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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.

Rollo May

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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Artist Chaos Create Form Genesis God Immerse Into Love Order Out Themselves
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
It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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Anxiety Conflict Constructive Going Long Ourselves Remind Signify So Solution Well
Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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Capacity Development Freedom Man Old Ourselves Own Takem Hand
The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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Amazing Best Know Love Ourselves Thing Way
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
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
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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Amazing Come Ear Guide Hear Hint Intuition Live May Peron Sensitive
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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Heroism Identity Important Make Mold Reflect Sense
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Apathy Hate Love Opposite
Mass communication–wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued–presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)
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Appreciate Communication Daner Mass May Serious Something Technologically Value Wonder
There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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Affect Authentic Change Freedom History Human Inner Later Sooner
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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Absorb Around Become Caught Completely Obvious Something Thing You
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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Construct Depression Future Inability
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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Absence Ahead Capacity Courage Despair Move Rather Spite
The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.
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Become Differentiate Experience Feeling Many Mature Nuance Passionate Person Strong

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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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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