Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The personal freedom to think & feel & speak authentically & to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Freedom is the possibility of development, of enhancement of one's life - or the possibility of withdrawing, shutting oneself up, denying and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that they are afraid that… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we… — Rollo May Copy Share
Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of… — Rollo May Copy Share
In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the… — Rollo May Copy Share
One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves. — Rollo May Copy Share
Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. — Rollo May Copy Share
“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.” — Rollo May Copy Share
Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind… — Rollo May Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the… — Rollo May Copy Share
Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other. — Rollo May Copy Share
We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly… — Rollo May Copy Share
