Depression is the inability to construct a future.
~ Rollo May
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
~ Rollo May
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
~ Rollo May
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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.
~ Rollo May
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Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
~ Rollo May
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It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one’s inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom.
~ Rollo May
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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
~ Rollo May
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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.
~ Rollo May
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