I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
ROLLO MAYThis is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
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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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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us?
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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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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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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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Humor is the healthy way of feeling “distance” between one’s self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one’s problem with perspective.
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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning “heart.” Thus just as one’s heart, by pumping blood to one’s arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function.
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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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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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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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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
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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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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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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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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.
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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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