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Rollo May Quotes
Best Quotes by Rollo May (Top 10)
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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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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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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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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To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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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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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)
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Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
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Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union
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