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
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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.
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The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.
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Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Imagination is the outreaching of mind . . . . the bombardment of the conscious mind with ideas, impulses, images and every sort of psychic phenomena welling up from the preconscious. It is the capacity to "dream dreams and see visions . . . .
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Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the other unique characteristics of the human being is based upon his consciousness of himself.
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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.
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If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.