I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
ROLLO MAYPeople attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
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Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
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There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
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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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The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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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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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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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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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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Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth.
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