Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
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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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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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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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
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This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.
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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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To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive – to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before
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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one’s own convictions – not obstinately or defiantly
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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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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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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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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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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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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