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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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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Courage is required not only in a person’s occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.

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Courage is required not only in a person’s occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
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In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

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In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.

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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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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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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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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.

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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning “heart.” Thus just as one’s heart, by pumping blood to one’s arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function.

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The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning “heart.” Thus just as one’s heart, by pumping blood to one’s arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function.
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Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

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Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
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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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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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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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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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To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.

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To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.

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Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
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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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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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In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person’s development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

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In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person’s development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
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