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.
ROLLO MAYApathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, “This is me and the world be damned!” Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society – Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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Vanity and narcissism – the compulsive need to be admired and praised – undermine one’s courage, for one then fights on someone else’s conviction rather than one’s own.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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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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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 neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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Therapy isn’t curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human.
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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