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• Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

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  Risk, Intimacy, Self Actualization

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is infinitely safer to know that the man at the top has his doubts, as you and I have ours, yet has the courage to move ahead in spite of these doubts.

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  Moving, Men, Doubt

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• Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

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  Mean, Creativity, Self

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Communication leads to community that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking. Community can be defined simply as a group in which free conversation can take place. Community is where I can share my innermost thoughts, bring out the depths of my own feelings, and know they will be understood.

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  Communication, Community, Feelings

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.247, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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 is saying.

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  Life, Sensitive Person, Intuition

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.76, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

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  Life, Good Life, Survival

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.

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  Motivation, Long, Anxiety

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

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  Culture, World, Hell

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• Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

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  Confused, Love Is, Independence

  Rollo May Ph.D. (1953). “Man's Search for Himself”

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• 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 arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

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  Inspiration, Heart, Blood

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

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  Rebel, Saint, Humans

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• The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.

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  Love Is, Way, Knows

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• Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.

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  Creativity, Creating, Encounters

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.54, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.

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  Beauty, Peace, Giving

  Rollo May (1985). “My Quest for Beauty”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

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  Dangerous, Knows

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.

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  Needs, Life Is

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• 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 in his own powers.

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  Block, Destiny, Development

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.174, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

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  Change, Courage To Change

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• All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

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  Struggle, Creativity, Artist

  Rollo May (1985). “My Quest for Beauty”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.

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  Life, People, Decision

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

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  Running, Long, Apathy

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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 need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings.

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  Courage, Heart, Creativity

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• The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

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  Courage, Mean, Cat

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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 away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

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  Art, Healing, Games

  Rollo May (1985). “My Quest for Beauty”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

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  Time, Creativity, Imagination

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