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Person Quotes by Rollo May
- What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has…
- What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.
- It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body…
- 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…
- Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.
- Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks…
- Suffering is nature's way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person…
- One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.
- Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
- A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight,…
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- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear… — Lance Armstrong
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash
- Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
- A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. — Arthur Ashe