One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
ROLLO MAYWhat 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.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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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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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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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.
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There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
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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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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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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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