It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
ROLLO MAYFreedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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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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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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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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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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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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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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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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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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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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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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