A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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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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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Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One’s religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.
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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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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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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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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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There 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.
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However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
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Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
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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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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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