A mien which seems to say, “You are looking at somebody now.” For this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
ROLLO MAYFinding 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.
More Rollo May Quotes
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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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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Mass communication–wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued–presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)
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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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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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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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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
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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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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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