Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
ROLLO MAYDoes not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
More Rollo May Quotes
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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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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All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
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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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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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Mass communication–wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued–presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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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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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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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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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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