Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
ROLLO MAYScience, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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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There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular – though profoundly mistaken – definition of myth as falsehood.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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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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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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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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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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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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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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In 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.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.
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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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