One does not become fully human painlessly.
ROLLO MAYAll people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
More Rollo May Quotes
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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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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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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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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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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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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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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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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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Suffering is nature’s way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.
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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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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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