The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.
ROLLO MAYApathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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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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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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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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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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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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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them.
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It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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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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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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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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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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