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.
ROLLO MAYThere is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one’s own convictions – not obstinately or defiantly
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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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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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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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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It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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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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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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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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