The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

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.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

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.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

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.

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.

The essence of being human is that in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet we can love some persons and some things in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.

Vanity and narcissism the compulsive need to be admired and praised undermine ones courage for one then fights on someone elses conviction rather than ones own.

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

We must be fully committed but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one... is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

Communication leads to community that is to understanding intimacy and mutual valuing

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice it is conformity.

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

Apathy adds up in the long run to cowardice.

It is dangerous to know but it is more dangerous not to know.

One has to remain detached in order to triumph over others.

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and in that pause to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves based upon this freedom is inseparable from consciousness or self awareness

Life comes from physical survival but the good life comes from what we care about.

The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

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 myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

Vanity and narcissism the compulsive need to be admired and praised undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.

The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.

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.

There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.

Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.