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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

Rollo May

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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Confuse Dependence Fact Generally Love Point
People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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Become Change Dangerous People Seat Too Way
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive – to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before
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Love Mena Negative Ourselves Positive Well
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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Best Center Contribution Fellow Men Find Long Makem Our Ourselves Run Strength
The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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Free People Purpose Pyschothraphy Set
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
One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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Central Fulfill Life Need One Own Potential
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
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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Courage Inescapable Intimacy Require Risk
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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Communication Community Intimacy Mutual Read Understanding Valuing
Courage is required not only in a person’s occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
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Courage Crucial Decision Freedom Hour Little Occasional Only Own Person Place REquired
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
A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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Anxiety Extent Mert Person Stronger Threat Value
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.
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Accompany Emotion Fulfilling Goal Happiness Joy Life Nation Rather
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
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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Become Ethical Factory Mithilism Person Result Science Want

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

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