People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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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To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.
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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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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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It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.
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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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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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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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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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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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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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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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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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