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Rollo May
American
Psychologist
About the author
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,
American
Psychologist
#Will
#Being
#Ideas
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Rollo May,
American
Psychologist
#Society
#Courage
#Cowardice
#Conformity
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
Rollo May,
American
Psychologist
#Commitment
#Doubt
One does not become fully human painlessly.
Rollo May,
American
Psychologist
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
Rollo May,
American
Psychologist
#Life
#Survival
#Care
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,
American
Psychologist
#Life
#Being
#Dignity
#Experience
#Worth
#Goal
#Identity
#Happiness
#Joy
#Emotion
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,
American
Psychologist
#Play
#Freedom
#Battle
#Journey
#Courage
#Martyr
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
Rollo May,
American
Psychologist
#Habit
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
Rollo May,
American
Psychologist
#Freedom
#Weight
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
Rollo May,
American
Psychologist
#Love
#Hate
#Apathy
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Rollo May,
American
Psychologist
#Freedom
#Man
#Development
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Rollo May,
American
Psychologist
#Future
#Depression
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.
Rollo May,
American
Psychologist
#Death
#Being
#Youth
#Passion
#Creativity
#Childhood
#Spontaneity
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Rollo May,
American
Psychologist
#Courage
#Absence
#Despair
Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
Rollo May,
American
Psychologist
#State
#Care
#Tenderness
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Rollo May,
American
Psychologist
#Understanding
#Community
#Communication
#Intimacy