What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning..

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us..

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..

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..

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

The rebel is committed to giving a form and pattern to the world. It is a pattern born of the indomitable thrust of the human mind, the mind which ma….

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

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose..

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom..

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

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

One does not become fully human painlessly..

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35).

The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into….

This is hard for parents to say genuinely..

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them..

Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself..

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power..

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….

The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves..

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life..