Real freedom is the ability ...

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
 Rollo May

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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.
 Rollo May
It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
 Rollo May
The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.
 Rollo May
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.
 Rollo May
By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.
 Rollo May