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 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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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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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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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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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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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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Courage is required not only in a person’s occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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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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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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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
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