Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
ROLLO MAYA person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
More Rollo May Quotes
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All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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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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Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
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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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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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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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This is what our society needs – not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
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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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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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