The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
ROLLO MAYThis 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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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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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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Humor is the healthy way of feeling “distance” between one’s self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one’s problem with perspective.
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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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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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What anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings.
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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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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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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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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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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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