If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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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It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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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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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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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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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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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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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Vanity and narcissism – the compulsive need to be admired and praised – undermine one’s courage, for one then fights on someone else’s conviction rather than one’s own.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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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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Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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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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