Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
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
When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility. — 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… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism… — 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
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 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
In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat. — 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
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
The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as… — 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
A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence… — 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
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 constructive schizoid person stands against the spiritual emptiness of encroaching technology and does not let himself be emptied by it. He… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every… — 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
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
