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.
ROLLO MAYCreativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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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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The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.
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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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When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
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Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.
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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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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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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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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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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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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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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