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One Quotes by Rollo May
- All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
- The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's…
- One does not become fully human painlessly.
- Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather…
- 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…
- 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…
- One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
- That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of…
- 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…
- We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People who claim to…
- Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with…
- We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but…
- 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…
- One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment.
- Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge.
- 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,…
- Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is…
- It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom.…
- Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
- In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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