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.
ROLLO MAYMany people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
More Rollo May Quotes
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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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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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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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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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.
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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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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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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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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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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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