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- We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.
- Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
- 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…
- What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.
- We receive love roughly in proportion to our capacity to love.
- Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
- There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
- Self-love is not only necessary and good, it is a prerequisite for loving others.
- Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
- Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
- 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,…
- Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.
- Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
- If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.
- Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever…
- This is hard for parents to say genuinely.
- Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
- One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.
- To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy,…
- 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…
- One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
- It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
- 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…
- Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
- When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of…
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- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide