The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
ROLLO MAYCourage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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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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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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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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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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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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Mass communication–wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued–presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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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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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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