The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
ROLLO MAYIt is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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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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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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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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The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
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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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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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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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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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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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