Rollo May

Rollo May

"Depression is the inability to construct a future."
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"Depression is the inability to construct a future."
Rollo May
"Hate is not the opposite of love apathy is."
Rollo May
"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
"If the will remains in protest it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against."
Rollo May
"Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective."
Rollo May
"Courage isrequired not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility."
Rollo May
"To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked."
Rollo May
"The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's convictions-not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation but simply because these are what one believes."
Rollo May
"Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow to move ahead."
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
"There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change."
Rollo May
"Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence."
Rollo May
"It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way."
Rollo May
"There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood."
Rollo May
"A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence."
Rollo May
"The fascist authoritarianism, characterized by sado-masochism and destructiveness, had a function which is comparable psychologically to a neurotic symptom - namely, fascism compensated for powerlessness and individual isolation and protected the individual from anxiety-creating situations. If one compare fascism to a neurotic symptom, it can be said that fascism is a neurotic form of community."
Rollo May
"The threat of frustration of a biological urge does not cause conflict and anxiety unless that urge is identified with some value essential to the existence of the personality."
Rollo May
"Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home... To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths..."
Rollo May
"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing."
Rollo May
"Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own"
Rollo May
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