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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

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Rollo May
Age: 85 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 21
Died: 1994
Died: October 22
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Writer
Communication
Valuing
Compassion
Intimacy
Wisdom
Sympathy
Understanding
Empathy
Community
Mutual
Inspirational
Appreciation
Work
Dialogue
Life
Leads

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It is infinitely safer to know that the man at the top has his doubts, as you and I have ours, yet has the courage to move ahead in spite of these doubts.
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Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)
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Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
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They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in which the person consciously has worked laboriously and with dedication.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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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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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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