One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
ROLLO MAYLife comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
More Rollo May Quotes
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There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular – though profoundly mistaken – definition of myth as falsehood.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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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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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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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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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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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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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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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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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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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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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 purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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