People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
ROLLO MAYIt 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.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.
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Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth.
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Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
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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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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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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 relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
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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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Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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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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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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