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.
ROLLO MAYThere is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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.
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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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In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
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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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Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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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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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
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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.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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Therapy isn’t curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human.
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
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