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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

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  Creativity, Something New, Process

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

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  Reality, Existentialism, Humans

  Rollo May (1994). “Existence”, p.27, Jason Aronson

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.

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  People, Creative, Anxiety

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• There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.

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  Meaningful, Individual, Said

  "Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence". Book by Rollo May, ch. 11: The Humanity of the Rebel, 1972.

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• Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.

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  Joy, Use, Effects

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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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• 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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• 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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• We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.

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  Creativity, Creating, Sequels

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.8, W. W. Norton & Company

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

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  Needs, Life Is

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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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• Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.

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  Courage, Moving, Anxiety

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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 been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

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  Country, Courage, Moving

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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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• We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.

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  Religious, Attitude, Intellectual

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

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