Courage is required not only in a person’s occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
ROLLO MAYOne of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
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All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
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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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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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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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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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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 is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
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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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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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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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