It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
ROLLO MAYArtists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
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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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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All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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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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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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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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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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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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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us?
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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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