All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
ROLLO MAYThe amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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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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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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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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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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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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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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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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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 people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
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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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