The courage to be is the ...

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
 Paul Tillich

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.
 Susanne Katherina Langer
In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.
 Stephen Mallinder
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
 Nicolas Winding Refn
I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought, the answers to everything. And since the end of the Cold War, I'm just a dumb as everyone else.
 Jules Feiffer

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Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
 Paul Tillich
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
 Paul Tillich
Spirit is the presence of what concerns us ultimately, the ground of our being and meaning.
 Paul Tillich
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
 Paul Tillich
Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason
 Paul Tillich