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

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


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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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Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.



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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.



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The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.



The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

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