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.
ROLLO MAYThere is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
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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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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.
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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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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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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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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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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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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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Suffering is nature’s way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.
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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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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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