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.
ROLLO MAYCourage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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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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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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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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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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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
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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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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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Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, “This is me and the world be damned!” Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society – Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.
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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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