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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.

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Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.

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I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.

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If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny.

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

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

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The cooperative, loving side of existence goes hand in hand with coping and power, but neither the one nor the other can be neglected if life is to be gratifying.

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The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time.

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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.

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The compelling drive to get at the truth is what improves us all as psychologists and is part and parcel of intellectual integrity. But I do urge that we not let the drive for honesty put blinders on us and cut off our range of vision so that we miss the very thing we set out the understand - namely, the living human being.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: April 21st, 1909

Died: October 22nd, 1994

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