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Rollo May Quotes

You can live without a father who accepts you, but you cannot live without a world that makes some sense to you Picture Quote #1

The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call Picture Quote #1

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself Picture Quote #1

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence Picture Quote #1

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power Picture Quote #1

The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision Picture Quote #1

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The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist’s holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms... against the unconscious Picture Quote #1

It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist have this sense of timing, that he or she respect... periods of receptivity as part of the mystery of creativity and creation Picture Quote #1

The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have Picture Quote #1

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety Picture Quote #1

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To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked Picture Quote #1

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against Picture Quote #1

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all Picture Quote #1

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can’t make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways Picture Quote #1

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair Picture Quote #1

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death Picture Quote #1

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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves Picture Quote #1

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight Picture Quote #1

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt Picture Quote #1

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself Picture Quote #1

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration Picture Quote #1

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears Picture Quote #1

A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat Picture Quote #1

When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible Picture Quote #1

Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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You can live without a father who accepts you, but you cannot live without a world that makes some sense to you (Rollo May Quotes) The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call (Rollo May Quotes) If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself (Rollo May Quotes) Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence (Rollo May Quotes) Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power (Rollo May Quotes) The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision (Rollo May Quotes) The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist’s holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak (Rollo May Quotes) 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 (Rollo May Quotes) Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms... against the unconscious (Rollo May Quotes) It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist have this sense of timing, that he or she respect... periods of receptivity as part of the mystery of creativity and creation (Rollo May Quotes) The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have (Rollo May Quotes) Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety (Rollo May Quotes) To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked (Rollo May Quotes) If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against (Rollo May Quotes) Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all (Rollo May Quotes) Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can’t make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways (Rollo May Quotes) Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair (Rollo May Quotes) Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death (Rollo May Quotes) Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves (Rollo May Quotes) Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight (Rollo May Quotes) The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt (Rollo May Quotes) If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself (Rollo May Quotes) It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way (Rollo May Quotes) 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 (Rollo May Quotes) Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration (Rollo May Quotes) Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears (Rollo May Quotes) A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat (Rollo May Quotes) When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible (Rollo May Quotes) Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it (Rollo May Quotes) 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 (Rollo May Quotes)

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