Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
ROLLO MAYEcstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
More Rollo May Quotes
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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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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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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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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
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Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
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There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular – though profoundly mistaken – definition of myth as falsehood.
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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 damned world can go to hell.
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