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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
Creativity is a yearning for immortality
This is hard for parents to say genuinely.
One does not become fully human painlessly.
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.
The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.
They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.
Problems are the outward signs of unused inner possibilities.
It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.
Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.
Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way.
Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.
There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.
Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'
The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.
Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.
I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.