Rollo May Quotes

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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.
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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.
One does not become fully human painlessly.
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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.
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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.
Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.
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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Rollo May
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21 April, 1909
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22 October, 1994
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