Rollo May quotes
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“Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.”
-- Rollo MaySource : "Actor Roma Downey: Being inspired by kindness and the centering ritual of tea". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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“The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.”
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“We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.”
-- Rollo MaySource : Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.8, W. W. Norton & Company
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“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.”
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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.”
-- Rollo MaySource : Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.12, 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.”
-- Rollo MaySource : Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company
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“One does not become fully human painlessly.”
-- Rollo MaySource : "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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“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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“Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.”
-- Rollo MaySource : Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.119, W. W. Norton & Company
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“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.”
-- Rollo MaySource : Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”
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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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“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”
-- Rollo MaySource : Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”
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“Depression is the inability to construct a future.”
-- Rollo MaySource : "Love and Will". Book by Rollo May, ch. 9, 1969.
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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.”
-- Rollo MaySource : "Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice". Book by Napoleon Hill, p. 104, 1991.
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“Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.”
-- Rollo MaySource : Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.125, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.”
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“Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.”
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“Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.”
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“Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.”
-- Rollo MaySource : Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company
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“However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.”
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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.”
-- Rollo MaySource : "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.”
-- Rollo MaySource : Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.7, W. W. Norton & Company
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