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.
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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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.
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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.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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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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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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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 damned world can go to hell.
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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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