Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. … One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him.
ROLLO MAYFreedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
More Rollo May Quotes
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, “This is me and the world be damned!” Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society – Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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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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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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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
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We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one’s total orientation to life.
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Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.
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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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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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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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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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