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This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.

Rollo May

It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.
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Being Faster Fiercely Grasp Habit Human Ironic Lost More Old Our Way Research Statistic Technical
One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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Central Fulfill Life Need One Own Potential
The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one’s own convictions – not obstinately or defiantly
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Age Capacity Conformity Conviction Courage Hallmark Obstinately One Our Own Stand
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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Being Betray Express Idea Listen Original Own
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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Confuse Dependence Fact Generally Love Point
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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Antagonistic Between Commitment Doubt Mean One Relationship
However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
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Against Capacity Confound Counterfeited Cover Element Fight However Injustice
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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Confer Hand Possibility Power Responsibility Something
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.
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Accompany Emotion Fulfilling Goal Happiness Joy Life Nation Rather
When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence/
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Care Fall Feel Love More Myself Treat Valuable
Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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Being Courage Make Necessary Possible
I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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Active Cure Heal Learn Myself Need Participate Process
This is what our society needs – not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
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Genius Important Invention Need Person Society Strength Supermen Themselves
What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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Art Experience Fountainhead Frost Human Imagination
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
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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Constructive Deal First Learn Live Moment Necesaaty Present Reality Thing Time

This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.

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