There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
ROLLO MAYLove is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
More Rollo May Quotes
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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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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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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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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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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
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Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.
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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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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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It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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