Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The emergence of the Atomic Age brought the previously inchoate and 'free-floating' anxiety of many people into sharp focus. — 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
Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day. — 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
I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It is an obvious fact that when an age is torn loose from its moorings and everyone is to some degree thrown… — 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
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Suffering is nature's way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities. — 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
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
Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.” — Rollo May Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
