The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The striking thing about love and will in our day is that, whereas in the past they were always held up to… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude… — 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
When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“The two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we all are heir as individuals,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Power is required for communication. To stand before an indifferent or hostile group and have one's say, or to speak honestly to… — 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
