Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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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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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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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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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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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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To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive – to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before
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When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.
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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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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.
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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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