Forge in the smithy of your soul.
ROLLO MAYBeauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person’s development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
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A mien which seems to say, “You are looking at somebody now.” For this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
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Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.
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Humor is the healthy way of feeling “distance” between one’s self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one’s problem with perspective.
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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
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Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity.
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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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.
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All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence/
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The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.
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Courage is required not only in a person’s occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
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