This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.
ROLLO MAYScience, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
More Rollo May Quotes
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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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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Suffering is nature’s way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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Therapy isn’t curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human.
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What anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings.
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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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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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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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One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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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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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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