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Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.

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This is what our society needs – not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
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Genius Important Invention Need Person Society Strength Supermen Themselves
It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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Anxiety Conflict Constructive Going Long Ourselves Remind Signify So Solution Well
All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
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Artist Brush Communicating Feeling Like Meaningful Paint Share Something Way World
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
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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Absence Ahead Capacity Courage Despair Move Rather Spite
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
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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Habit Human Being Ironic Lost Way
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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Anxiety Create Door Knock Make Mean Need Something Work
The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
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Certain Come Evil Good One Ourselves Relationship Thing Unaffected
The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.
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Constructive Deal First Learn Live Moment Necesaaty Present Reality Thing Time
One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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Central Fulfill Life Need One Own Potential
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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Become Differentiate Experience Feeling Many Mature Nuance Passionate Person Strong
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
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
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
Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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Beauty Experience Give Joy Peace Sense Simultaneously

Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.

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