1. “Creativity is a yearning for immortality.”
2. “Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.”
3. “Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.”
4. “I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.”
5. “A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.”
6. “It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.”
7. “Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.”
8. “Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.”
9. “It is infinitely safer to now that the man at the top has his doubts, as you and I have ours, yet has the courage to move ahead in spite of these doubts.”
10. “Hate is not opposite of love; apathy is.”
11. “One does not become fully human painlessly.”
12. “It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.”
13. “Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.”
14. “Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.”
15. “Depression is the inability to construct a future.”
16. “Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.”
17. “Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.”
18. “Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.”
19. “One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.”
20. “People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.”
21. “Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human beig with his world.”
22. “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.”
23. “The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.”
24. “The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.”
25. “Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.”
26. “People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.”
27. “The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.”
28. “One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.”
29. “The turtle only makes progress when it’s neck is stuck out.”
30. “Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.”
