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.
ROLLO MAYHate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.
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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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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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Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
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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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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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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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All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
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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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What anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings.
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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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