All Rollo May Quotes
- It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of… Beings
- Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35) History
- Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to… All
- Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We… All
- Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish… Awareness
- What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience? All
- To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy,… Consciousness
- Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line. Assembly
- Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man Best
- Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all… All
- One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential. Central
- One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves. Age
- It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know. Dangerous
- I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts. Became
- It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom.… Acts
- In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But… Age
- Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting… Achieve
- Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to… All
- Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a… Built
- Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not. Depend
- When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of… Adolescent
- When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the way it looks… Albeit
- The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite… Antagonistic
- The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly Age
- There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history. Affect