Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
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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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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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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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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Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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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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Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth.
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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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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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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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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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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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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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Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.
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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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The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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Therapy isn’t curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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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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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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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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