Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
ROLLO MAYIn 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.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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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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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.
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Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.
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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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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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Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
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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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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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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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