Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
ROLLO MAYSuffering is nature’s way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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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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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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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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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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To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.
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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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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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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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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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