“Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own
development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.”— American humanistic and
existential psychologist Rollo May (1909-1994), Man’s Search for Himself
(1953)
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes
you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have
come alive.” — American author, philosopher,
theologian, educator and civil rights leader Howard Thurman (1899-1981), quoted
in Gil Bailie, Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads (1996)
“You and you alone are the only person that can live
the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell. And the world needs
your story because the world needs your voice.”—Scandal actress Kerry Washington, quoted in Vi-Ann Nguyen, “Best Quotes from Kerry Washington's and Stephen Colbert's Graduation Speeches,” Parade,
May 20, 2013
“There's nothing you can do that's more important
than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to
transcendence; in this way you will find, live, and become a realization of
your own personal myth."—Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation (2004)
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“To be what we are, and to become what we are
capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”-- Robert Louis
Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882)
