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.
ROLLO MAYA person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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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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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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This is what our society needs – not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
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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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A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.
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The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
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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 an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.
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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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In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person’s development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
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When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence/
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One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
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