If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
ROLLO MAYIntimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us?
More Rollo May Quotes
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One’s religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.
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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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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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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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Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
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Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
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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 world be damned!” Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society – Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.
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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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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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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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When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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