Best quotes by Rollo May on Freedom

Checkout quotes by Rollo May on Freedom

• ‟ Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

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• ‟ Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.

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• ‟ I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.

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• ‟ Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

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• ‟ 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.

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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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• ‟ 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.

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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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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny.

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