There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world. — 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
The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience? — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons… — 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
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
Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the… — 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
Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The authentic rebel knows that the silencing of all his adversaries is the last thing on earth he wishes: their extermination would… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35) — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The rebel is committed to giving a form and pattern to the world. It is a pattern born of the indomitable thrust… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or… — 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
