All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
ROLLO MAYMass 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)
More Rollo May Quotes
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Therapy isn’t curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human.
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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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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 amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them.
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There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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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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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
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