Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
ROLLO MAYIt is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.
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It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
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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 suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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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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Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.
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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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Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
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Mass communication–wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued–presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)
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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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