American - Psychologist | April 21, 1909 - October 22, 1994
Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.
Rollo May
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The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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We are anxious because we do not know what roles to pursue, what principles for action to believe in. Our individual anxiety, somewhat like that of the nation, is a basic confusion and bewilderment about where we are going.
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
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Problems are the outward signs of unused inner possibilities.
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Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience of freedom.
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Memory depends mainly upon myth. Some even occurs in our minds, in actuality or in fantasy; we form it in memory, molding it like clay day after day - and soon we have made out of that event a myth. We then keep the myth in memory as a guide to future similar situations.
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.
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Every being has the need not only to be but to affirm his own being. This is especially significant for the human organism, for it is gifted with, or condemned to, self-consciousness.
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