There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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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Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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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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All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
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Courage is required not only in a person’s occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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