Rollo May

One does not become fully human painlessly.

— Rollo May

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

— Rollo May

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.

— Rollo May

Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.

— Rollo May

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

— Rollo May

The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

— Rollo May

The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.

— Rollo May

The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.

— Rollo May

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

— Rollo May

Self-love is not only necessary and good, it is a prerequisite for loving others.

— Rollo May

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

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Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each…

— Rollo May

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

— Rollo May

Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way.

— Rollo May

Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.

— Rollo May

We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.

— Rollo May

“Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and…

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In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which…

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No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the…

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The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage,…

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Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan…

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Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be…

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Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the…

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To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well…

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That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into…

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Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects — as the wonderful new heaven and earth which love with its…

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In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity…

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Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay…

— Rollo May

Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and…

— Rollo May

We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People…

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Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of…

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“But there comes a point (and this is the challenge facing modern technological Western man) when the cult of technique destroys feeling,…

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We receive love roughly in proportion to our capacity to love.

— Rollo May

By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.

— Rollo May

They pursue meaninglessness until they force it to mean.

— Rollo May

One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.

— Rollo May

They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.

— Rollo May

Problems are the outward signs of unused inner possibilities.

— Rollo May

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

— Rollo May

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

— Rollo May