Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
ROLLO MAYWhen we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
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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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Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, “This is me and the world be damned!” Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society – Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.
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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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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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To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.
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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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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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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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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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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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A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.
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The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.
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