Rollo May famous quotes

05-12-2025

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

#Real #Stimulus And Response #Ability
The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.
-- Rollo May

#Inspirational #Turtles #Progress
We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.
-- Rollo May

#Creativity #Creating #Sequels
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
-- Rollo May

#Courage #Soulmate #Self Esteem
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
-- Rollo May

#Depression #Ideas #Creating
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.
-- Rollo May

#People #Suffering #Introspection
One does not become fully human painlessly.
-- Rollo May

#Reality #Doe #Humans
People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
-- Rollo May

#People #Way #Dangerous
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.
-- Rollo May

#Mean #Leader #Lines
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
-- Rollo May

#Freedom #Men #Hands
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
-- Rollo May

#Inspirational #Running #Wisdom
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.
-- Rollo May

#Inspirational #Quiet People #Being Alone
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 May

#Love #Life #Disappointment
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
-- Rollo May

#Sad #Depression #Depressing
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 May

#Opposites #People #Our Society
Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
-- Rollo May

#Doe #Each Day #Bounds
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
-- Rollo May

#Inspirational #Life #Sympathy
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.
-- Rollo May

#Way #Needs #Our Society
Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.
-- Rollo May

#Courage #Moving #Long
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
-- Rollo May

#Risk #Intimacy #Self Actualization
However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
-- Rollo May

#Fighting #Covered Up #May
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 May

#Love #Self #People In Your Life
One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
-- Rollo May

#Blessing #Anxiety #Age

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