Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
ROLLO MAYScience, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.
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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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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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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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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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What anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings.
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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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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one’s own convictions – not obstinately or defiantly
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There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
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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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