12 Quotes by 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.
- The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is 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.
- One does not become fully human painlessly.
- It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
- Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
- Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
- Depression is the inability to construct a future.
- 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.
- Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
- Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
- Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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