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.
ROLLO MAYLove is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
More Rollo May Quotes
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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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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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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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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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 to day.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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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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