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.
ROLLO MAYOne does not become fully human painlessly.
More Rollo May Quotes
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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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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Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One’s religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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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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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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This is what our society needs – not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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