Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.
ROLLO MAYIt 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.
More Rollo May Quotes
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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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 nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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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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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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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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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
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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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A mien which seems to say, “You are looking at somebody now.” For this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
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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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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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Humor is the healthy way of feeling “distance” between one’s self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one’s problem with perspective.
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A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.
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