Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
ROLLO MAYMemory 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.
More Rollo May Quotes
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
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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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Therapy isn’t curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human.
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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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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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What anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings.
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Courage is required not only in a person’s occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
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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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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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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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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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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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