Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Rollo May
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  4. Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves...

  5. It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

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