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Us Quotes by Rollo May
- Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
- What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you…
- Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes,…
- 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…
- A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory…
- 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…
- The personal freedom to think & feel & speak authentically & to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
- 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,…
- Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.
- The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of…
- 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…
- If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.
- 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…
- Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one…
- Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips…
- Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to…
- When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the way it looks…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle