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Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell. — Rollo May

Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously. — Rollo May

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

Forge in the smithy of your soul. — Rollo May

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly — Rollo May

Depression is the inability to construct a future. — 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

We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being. — Rollo May

Whether we are 'Freudians' or not, as I am not, we are surely all post-Freudian. He set the tone for vast changes in our culture — Rollo May

Escapist creativity is that which lacks encounter. — Rollo May

By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness. — Rollo May

They pursue meaninglessness until they force it to mean. — Rollo May

The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face. — Rollo May

Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. — Rollo May

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate. — Rollo May

One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential. — Rollo May

There is no meaningful "yes" unless the individual could also have said "no. — Rollo May

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence. — Rollo May

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself. — Rollo May

The creative process must be explored ... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves. — Rollo May

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power. — Rollo May

I'm the problem of anxiety we must, therefore, always ask the question of what vital value is being threatened — Rollo May

One has to remain detached in order to triumph over others — Rollo May

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against. — Rollo May

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism. — Rollo May

There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever. — Rollo May

One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it. — Rollo May

Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged. — Rollo May

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act. — Rollo May

No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community. — Rollo May

The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free. — Rollo May

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. — Rollo May

Remembrance is a strange thing. With love its pain is bearable. With bitterness it simply destroys. — Elaine Di Rollo

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line. — Rollo May

I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts. — Rollo May

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. — Rollo May

One does not become fully human painlessly. — Rollo May

The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision. — Rollo May

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves. — Rollo May

It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible. — Rollo May

In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents. — Rollo May

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history. — 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 — Rollo May

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom. — Rollo May

Myths are like the beams in a house: not exposed to outside view, they are the structure which holds the house together so people can live in it. — Rollo May

People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are. — 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

Creativity occurs as an act of encounter, and is to be understood with this encounter at the center. — Rollo May

We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic. — Rollo May

Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead. — Rollo May

Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness. — Rollo May

Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods. — Rollo May

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life. — Rollo May

Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself. — Rollo May

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

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it? — Rollo May

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers. — Rollo May

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change. — Rollo May

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. — Rollo May

The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. — Rollo May

Something is born, comes into being, something which did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get. — Rollo May

Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man — Rollo May

The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out. — Rollo May

Rollo the Walker. Who are you?"
"Dak," he answered. It seemed like Rollo expected more. "Uh, Dak the, er ... Cheese Eater? — Carrie Ryan

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience? — Rollo May

One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment. — Rollo May

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice. — Rollo May

Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge. — Rollo May

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness. — Rollo May

A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat. — Rollo May

People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day. — Rollo May

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers. — Rollo May

When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility. — Rollo May

The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line. — Rollo May

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations. — Rollo May

We receive love roughly in proportion to our capacity to love. — Rollo May

Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible. — Rollo May

The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves. — Rollo May

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

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing. — Rollo May

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about. — Rollo May

If you believe in yourself, if you are without fear, you will also be tolerant, non-aggressive and find love. — Rollo Armstrong

The personal freedom to think & feel & speak authentically & to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human. — Rollo May

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears. — Rollo May

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning. — Rollo May

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

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively. — Rollo May

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way. — Rollo May

Myth safeguards and enforces morality, as Malinowski proclaimed, and if there are no myths there will be no morality. — Rollo May

This is hard for parents to say genuinely. — 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

Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world. — Rollo May

The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality. — Rollo May

Along with the loss of the sense of self has gone a loss of our language for communicating deeply personal meanings to each other. — Rollo May

Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity. — Rollo May

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it. — Rollo May

Self-love is not only necessary and good, it is a prerequisite for loving others. — Rollo May

Conscious anxiety is more painful but it is available also to use in the service of integration of the self. — Rollo May

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them. — Rollo May

I'm just a collection of mirrors, reflecting what everyone else expects of me. — Rollo May