The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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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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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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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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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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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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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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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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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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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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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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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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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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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