Rollo May Quotes

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

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  Courage, Soulmate, Self Esteem

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• When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.

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  Responsibility, People, Suffering

  "Psychology and the Human Dilemma". Book by Rollo May, p. 31, 1967.

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• If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

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  Depression, Ideas, Creating

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

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  Courage, Moving, Despair

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

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  Real, Stimulus And Response, Ability

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• One does not become fully human painlessly.

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  Reality, Doe, Humans

  "Existential-Phenomenological Alternatives for Psychology". Book by Ronald S. Valle, 1978.

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• People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.

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  People, Way, Dangerous

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• Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

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  Freedom, Men, Hands

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.119, W. W. Norton & Company

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

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  People, Suffering, Introspection

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human. Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, "This is me and the world be damned!" Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society - Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.

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  Mean, Leader, Lines

  "Marriage Today : Problems, Issues, and Alternatives". Book by James E. De Burger, p. 444, 1977.

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• It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

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  Inspirational, Running, Wisdom

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• Depression is the inability to construct a future.

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  Sad, Depression, Depressing

  "Love and Will". Book by Rollo May, ch. 9, 1969.

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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 as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before

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  Love, Life, Disappointment

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.

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  Inspirational, Turtles, Progress

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• In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

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  Inspirational, Quiet People, Being Alone

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• Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

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  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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

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  Dangerous, Knows

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.

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  Way, Planning, Forget You

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• Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.

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  Opposites, People, Our Society

  "Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice". Book by Napoleon Hill, p. 104, 1991.

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• Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

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  Rebel, Saint, Humans

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• Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

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  Love, Self, People In Your Life

  "Man's Search for Himself".

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• One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

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  Blessing, Anxiety, Age

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.7, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

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  Culture, World, Hell

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

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  Needs, Life Is

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• Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.

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  Becoming

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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