The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
ROLLO MAYWhat if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
More Rollo May Quotes
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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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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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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Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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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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Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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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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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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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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Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
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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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