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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.

Rollo May

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
When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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Human Individual Responsibility Significance Suffer
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
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
So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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Courage Fascimile Possible Psychologivcal Value Virtue
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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Block Clinical Development Experience Greatest Life Person Take Way
Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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Being Courage Make Necessary Possible
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
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
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Arise Between Creativity Limitation Spontaneously Tension
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
Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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Capacity Development Freedom Man Old Ourselves Own Takem Hand
When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
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Always Being Dependent Dual Human Itself Reality Truth Upon
The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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Error Evil Face Look Refusal Ultimate
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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Assumption Define Meaning Region
There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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Change Courage Lack Nobis Totally

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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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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