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Rollo May Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before.”
— Rollo May, Love & Will
Tagged: Love, Grief, Sorrow, Disappointment, Consciousness, possibilities
“The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.”
— Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself
Tagged: Human Being, Human Behavior, Growth, Self-Destruction
“Depression is the inability to construct a future.”
— Rollo May, Love and Will
Tagged: Depression, Inability, Future
“The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.”
— Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself
“Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.”
— Rollo May, The Courage to Create
Tagged: Intimacy, Courage, Relationship, Growing, Change, Certainty
“Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs — not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can "be", that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.”
— Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself
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