It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
ROLLO MAYThe ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
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A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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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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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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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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It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.
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When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.
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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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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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Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. … One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him.
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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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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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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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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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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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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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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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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