Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
ROLLO MAYGood art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. … One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him.
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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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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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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 damned world can go to hell.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
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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 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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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them.
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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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To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive – to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before
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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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