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- The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct.…
- The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's…
- People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
- 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,…
- A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory…
- Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware,…
- If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.
- Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension…
- Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.
- The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.
- Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become…
- Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
- Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.
- Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish…
- Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all…
- In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But…
- 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…
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