The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
ROLLO MAYIt is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
More Rollo May Quotes
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This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
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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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We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one’s total orientation to life.
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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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It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.
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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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Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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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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The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning “heart.” Thus just as one’s heart, by pumping blood to one’s arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function.
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