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.
ROLLO MAYApathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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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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When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
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Humor is the healthy way of feeling “distance” between one’s self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one’s problem with perspective.
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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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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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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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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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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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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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