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.
ROLLO MAYUnderstanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
More Rollo May Quotes
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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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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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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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, “This is me and the world be damned!” Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society – Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.
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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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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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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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Suffering is nature’s way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.
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Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.
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