What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
ROLLO MAYAll our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
More Rollo May Quotes
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
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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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Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
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It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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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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Vanity and narcissism – the compulsive need to be admired and praised – undermine one’s courage, for one then fights on someone else’s conviction rather than one’s own.
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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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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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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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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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