It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
ROLLO MAYLife comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
More Rollo May Quotes
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One’s religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.
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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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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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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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Suffering 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.
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
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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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A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.
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