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Rollo May Inspirational Quotes (98)

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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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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.
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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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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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Care is a state in which something does matter care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness.
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It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.
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There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.
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Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.
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If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.
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Hate is not the opposite of love apathy is.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.
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We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.
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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 amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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