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Persons 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…
- In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted…
- 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.
- Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that…
- 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…
- The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things,…
- 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…
- Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory…
- 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)
- Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We…
- Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all…
- 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.…
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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
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — 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