Humor is the healthy way of feeling “distance” between one’s self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one’s problem with perspective.
ROLLO MAYTo believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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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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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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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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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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When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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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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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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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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