351 Quotes by Rollo May
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The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's convictions— not obstinately or defiantly, nor as a gesture of retaliation, but simply because these are what one believes.
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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 than one's own.
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Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness
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Depression is the inability to construct
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One has to remain detached in order to triumph over others.
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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 be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one... is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.
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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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Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men.
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One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him.
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