The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
ROLLO MAYFortunately, 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.
More Rollo May Quotes
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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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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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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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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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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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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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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This is what our society needs – not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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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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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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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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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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