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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Rollo May

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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Make Myth Sense Senseless Way World
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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Best Center Contribution Fellow Men Find Long Makem Our Ourselves Run Strength
Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
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Against Aleck Community Competitive Contemporary Experience Factor Important Individualism Militate
The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.
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Being Brief Essence Exist Human Moment Planet Spinning
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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Acorn Automatic Become Commitment Growth Mean Necessary Oak
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
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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Against Around Defence Delight Good Tightly Truth Well Wound
One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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Central Fulfill Life Need One Own Potential
Suffering is nature’s way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.
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Attitude Behavior Every Mature Mistaken Moment Nonegocentric Peron Suffer Way
Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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Add Apathy Cowardice Long Run
Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.
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Achieve Anxiety Capacity Courage Freedom Meet Write
One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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Forget Have Irresponsible One Easiest Power Way
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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Adult Being Childhood Creatively Human Innocent Marry Merely Passion Youth
All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
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All Artist Ecraetive Life One People Some Struggle Succeeded Task Way
Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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Being Conscious Creativity Encounter Human Intensively World
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

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