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One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.

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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

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Depression is the inability to construct a future.

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I think Dostoevsky was right, that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

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If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

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The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

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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.

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Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.

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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 gesture of retaliation, but simply because these are what one believes.

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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.

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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 himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.

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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.

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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 participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union.

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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.

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