Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

Every organism has one and only one central need in life, to fulfill its own potentialities.

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

Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act, and came to the following conclusion: "I thought to myself, well if that's the case and if what I'm scared of isn't death, but getting to the end with regrets, then I've got to figure out what would be the things that I would regret when I got to the last act if I hadn't done them or achieved them by then. And they were: having an intimate relationship and having made a difference."

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.

By going back to your own center you can always find the pure idea of right for every relationship.

Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.

Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men."

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

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