Vanity and narcissism – the compulsive need to be admired and praised – undermine one’s courage, for one then fights on someone else’s conviction rather than one’s own.
ROLLO MAYFreedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
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One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
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There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
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Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
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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.
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them.
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Humor is the healthy way of feeling “distance” between one’s self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one’s problem with perspective.
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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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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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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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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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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Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
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