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Reason works better when emotions are present the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.

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Rollo May
Age: 85 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 21
Died: 1994
Died: October 22
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
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Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations may be.
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Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
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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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Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.
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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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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture.
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When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.
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Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of 'the possible,' and that this capacity is one aspect of his experiencing himself as a being having a world.
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Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.
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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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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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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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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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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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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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Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do, they write for two hours, then pitch quoits, and then go back to their writing. But certainly more than the mere mechanical alternation is involved.
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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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