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Danh ngôn của Rollo May (Sứ mệnh: 3)

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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.
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
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. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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.
It is an obvious fact that when an age is torn loose from its moorings and everyone is to some degree thrown on his own, most people can take steps to find and realize themselves.
Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of the individuals who make up that nation: no liberty of a nation of conformists, no free nation made up of robots.
Freedom is the possibility of development, of enhancement of one's life - or the possibility of withdrawing, shutting oneself up, denying and stultifying one's growth.
Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.
Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.
I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.
Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience of freedom.
If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny.
I make no apologies in admitting that I take very seriously the dehumanizing dangers in our tendency in modern science to make man over into the image of the machine, into the image of the techniques by which we study him.
Our particular problem in America at this point in history is the widespread loss of the sense of individual significance, a loss which is sensed inwardly as impotence.
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.
Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.
Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.