Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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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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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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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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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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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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The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning “heart.” Thus just as one’s heart, by pumping blood to one’s arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function.
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When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence/
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Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
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Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.
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