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 opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
One does not become fully human painlessly.
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.
When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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.
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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
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.
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
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.
Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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.
It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.
Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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