Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)