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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 first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.

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  Reality, Firsts, Moments

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.200, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

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  Relationship, Peace, Mean

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

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  Character, Doe, Sooner Or Later

  Rollo May (1999). “Freedom and Destiny”, p.57, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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 our own experience.

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  Block, Technology, Dimensions

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.70, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

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  Nihilism, Becoming, Existential

  Rollo May (1994). “Existence”, p.36, Jason Aronson

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• Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.

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  Artist, Order, Forever

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• 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 passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.

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  Strong, Symphony, Mature Person

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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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• 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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• Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

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  Way, Needs, Our Society

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.179, 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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• Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

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  Art, Creativity, Rivers

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.115, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

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  Creativity, Encounters, Understood

  "The Courage to Create".

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• Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge.

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  Self, Order, Vision

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

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• No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.

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  Personality, Community, Healthy

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• By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

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  Creativity, Names, Consciousness

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.44, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

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  Healing, Process, Cures

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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 fears.

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  Meaningful, Memories, Past

  "Man's Search for Himself" by Rollo May, (p. 220), 1953.

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• 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, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth. This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.

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  Inspiring, Hero, Order

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• 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 that is necessary to preserve human existence.

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  Worry, Boredom, Anxiety

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• Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact.

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  Artist, Race, Creating

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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