The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.
One does not become fully human painlessly.
When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human. Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, "This is me and the world be damned!" Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society - Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.
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.
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
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.
Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.
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. This 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.
Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.
However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
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