“There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.”
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“There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.”
“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 heir because we are individuals, can par...”
“Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.”
“The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's convictions-not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness, not courage) nor as a gestur...”
“To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.”
“Courage isrequired 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...”
“Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective.”
“If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.”
“If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.”
“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.”
“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.”
“We in our age are faced with a strange paradox. Never before have we had so much information in bits and pieces flooded upon us by radio and television and satellite, yet never before have w...”
“The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality.”
“Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be....”
“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 heir because we are individuals, can par...”
“It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.”
“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 bei...”
“Memory depends mainly upon myth. Some even occurs in our minds, in actuality or in fantasy; we form it in memory, molding it like clay day after day - and soon we have made out of that event...”
“I make no apologies in admitting that I take very seriously the dehumanizing dangers in our tendency in modern science to make man over into the image of the machine, into the image of the t...”
“Every being has the need not only to be but to affirm his own being. This is especially significant for the human organism, for it is gifted with, or condemned to, self-consciousness.”