Rollo May Quotes

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

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• It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

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• Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

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• Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

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

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• Depression is the inability to construct a future.

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• Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.

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• Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

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• 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. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

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• Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

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• Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.

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

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• One does not become fully human painlessly.

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• Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

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

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• There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.

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• 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 of doubt.

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Rollo May (19)

Birth:	21st April, 1909
Death:	22nd October, 1994
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Psychologist

About

Rollo May was an American existential psychologist. He was the author of the influential book Love and Will, which was published in 1969. He is often associated with both humanistic psychology and existentialist philosophy.

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