Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
ROLLO MAY- A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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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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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
ROLLO MAYIt is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.
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Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
ROLLO MAYArtists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
ROLLO MAYThere is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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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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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
ROLLO MAYMany people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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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.
ROLLO MAYAnxiety 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 creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
ROLLO MAYThe creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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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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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.
ROLLO MAYThe 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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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
ROLLO MAYOne central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.
ROLLO MAYThe essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.
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