People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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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When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence/
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We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one’s total orientation to life.
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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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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive – to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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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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Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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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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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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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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Therapy isn’t curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human.
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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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