Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
ROLLO MAYBeauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
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Mass communication–wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued–presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)
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This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.
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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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Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
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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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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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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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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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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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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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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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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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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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