Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
ROLLO MAYTo 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.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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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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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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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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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.
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The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.
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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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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one’s total orientation to life.
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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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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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