Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
ROLLO MAYThe 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.
More Rollo May Quotes
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This is what our society needs – not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
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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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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
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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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What anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings.
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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 no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
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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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However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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