This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.
ROLLO MAYTherapy isn’t curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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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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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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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 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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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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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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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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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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One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
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It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.
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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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