Rollo May
Rollo May
Rollo Reece Maywas an American existential psychologist and author of the influential book Love and Will. He is often associated with humanistic psychology, existentialist philosophy and, alongside Viktor Frankl, was a major proponent of existential psychotherapy. The philosopher and theologian Paul Tillich was a close friend who had a significant influence on his work...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 April 1909
CountryUnited States of America
inspirational quiet-people creativity
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.
people creative anxiety
Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.
heart people shows
I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.
responsibility people suffering
When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
people way dangerous
People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
creativity expression people
The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.
inspirational commitment people
We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one...is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.
life people decision
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
evil people tears
Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.
people purpose existential
The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
practice people sound
It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.
opposites people break-out
Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.
people suffering introspection
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.
among courage foundation gives love personal reality value values virtue virtues
Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity.It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personalvalues.