People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
ROLLO MAYMass 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)
More Rollo May Quotes
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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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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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.
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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.
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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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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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It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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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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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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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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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 the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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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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