If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
ROLLO MAYRecall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
More Rollo May Quotes
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Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
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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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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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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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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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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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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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Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.
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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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We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one’s total orientation to life.
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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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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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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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