Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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More Rollo May Quotes
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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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.
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We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one’s total orientation to life.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one’s own convictions – not obstinately or defiantly
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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity.
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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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Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.
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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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In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person’s development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
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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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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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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 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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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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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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Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
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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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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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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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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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