Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
ROLLO MAYThis 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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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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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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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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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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Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. … One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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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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