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.
ROLLO MAYThe first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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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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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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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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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.
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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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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.
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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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This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.
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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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To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.
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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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