One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
ROLLO MAYThere is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
More Rollo May Quotes
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them.
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There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular – though profoundly mistaken – definition of myth as falsehood.
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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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Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
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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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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 anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings.
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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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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.
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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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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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