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.
ROLLO MAYCreativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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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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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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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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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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Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.
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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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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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A mien which seems to say, “You are looking at somebody now.” For this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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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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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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