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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.

Rollo May

Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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Age Come Love Only Require Understanding Wisdom
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
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Among Courage Fidelity Love Personal Value Virtue
Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth.
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Citizen Courage Enable Find Hero Ideal Necessary Order Own Society Wisdom
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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Attain Courage Deciosn Decision From Day Multitude People Require Worth
The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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Free People Purpose Pyschothraphy Set
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Apathy Hate Love Opposite
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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Distance Feel Healthy Humor Look Perspective Problem Self Stand Way
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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Construct Depression Future Inability
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
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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Authentically Conscious Distinguish Doing Feel Freedom Think Human Personal Quality Speak
Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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History Jhuman Often Person Rebel Recall Saint Same
Mass communication–wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued–presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)
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Appreciate Communication Daner Mass May Serious Something Technologically Value Wonder
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
Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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Arise Out Power Powerlessness Superfully Violence
Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
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Achievement Automatically Bound Come Day E Ach Freedom Gain Single
Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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Fire Smithy Soul

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