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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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• The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

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  Struggle, Creative, Limits

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.113, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

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  Courage, Creative, Patterns

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.21, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.

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  Joy, Use, Effects

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.

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  Doe, Each Day, Bounds

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.125, W. W. Norton & Company

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