Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable.
~ Rollo May

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Communication leads to community — that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking.
~ Rollo May

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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
~ 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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The past and future have meaning because they are part of the present: a past event has existence now because you are thinking of it at this present moment, or because it influences you so that you, as a living being in the present, are that much different.
~ Rollo May

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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.
~ Rollo May

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You can live without a father who accepts you, but you cannot live without a world that makes some sense to you.
~ Rollo May

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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.
~ 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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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity.
~ Rollo May

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