Rollo May
Rollo Reece May was an American humanistic and existential psychologist, authoring the influential books Psychology and the Human Dilemma and Love and Will alon
6 quotes.
Quotes by Rollo May
- Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
- Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.