Mass communication–wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued–presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)
ROLLO MAYIt is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.
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Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them.
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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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Humor is the healthy way of feeling “distance” between one’s self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one’s problem with perspective.
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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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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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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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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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Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.
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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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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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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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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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