Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud, also brings back into the picture the understanding of man on the deeper and broader level — man as the being who is human.
~ Rollo May
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Art is a substitute for violence.
~ Rollo May
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
~ Rollo May
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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings.
~ Rollo May
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
~ Rollo May
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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
~ Rollo May
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The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.
~ Rollo May
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