All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
ROLLO MAYReal freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
More Rollo May Quotes
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When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence/
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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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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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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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There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular – though profoundly mistaken – definition of myth as falsehood.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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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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Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.
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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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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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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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Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity.
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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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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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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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