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Rollo May quotes

American Psychologist April 21, 1909 – October 22, 1994

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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 May
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. Rollo May
Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love o fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13) Rollo May
Rollo May quote: "One must have at least a readiness to love the other person,..."
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him. Rollo May
Rollo May quote: "Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is."
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. Rollo May
Rollo May quote: "Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes..."
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about. Rollo May
Rollo May quote: "One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential."
One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential. Rollo May
Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs? not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can "be", that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves. Rollo May
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected. Rollo May
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. Rollo May
Rollo May quote: "Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the..."
Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man Rollo May
Rollo May quote: "Depression is the inability to construct a future."
Depression is the inability to construct a future. Rollo May
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies. Rollo May
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 heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union Rollo May
When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship. Rollo May

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