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There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.

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Rollo May
Age: 85 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 21
Died: 1994
Died: October 22
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Writer
Meaningful
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths.
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Freedom does not come automatically it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound it must be achieved each day.
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By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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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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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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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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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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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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