Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
ROLLO MAYEvery 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.
More Rollo May Quotes
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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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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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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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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Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.
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When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence/
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It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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