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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More Rollo May Quotes
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Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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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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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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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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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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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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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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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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.
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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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