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Rollo May

Rollo May

American Psychologist

Born: Apr 21, 1909

Died: Oct 22, 1994

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Related authors: Abraham Maslow Angela Duckworth B. F. Skinner Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Erich Fromm Erik Erikson Phil McGraw Wayne Dyer

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. Rollo May

Lost Faster Our Way Run Habit Ironic Human Human Beings Beings

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. Rollo May

Courage Cowardice Society Our Opposite Conformity

Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone. Rollo May

Positive Alone Loneliness Solitude Values Omnipotent Threat Prospect Conception Times Frightened Being Being Alone Little Persons Painful Many Even

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

Relationship Matter Care State Something Tenderness Does Source Human Which

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

Love Hate Opposite Apathy

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death. Rollo May

Death Youth Creativity Human Being Passion Innocent Live Our Married Must Adult Merely Spontaneity Beyond Also Childhood Human Being Which

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt. Rollo May

Relationship Commitment Doubt Spite Between Without Antagonistic Means

One does not become fully human painlessly. Rollo May

Become Does Human Fully

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. Rollo May

People Problem Practice Own Say Colleagues My Own Well Emptiness Sound Clinical Surprising Chief Decade May Psychiatric Middle Psychological Century Twentieth Twentieth Century Basis

If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny. Rollo May

Freedom Achieve Our Destiny Daring Must Refuse Engaging Profundity

I make no apologies in admitting that I take very seriously the dehumanizing dangers in our tendency in modern science to make man over into the image of the machine, into the image of the techniques by which we study him. Rollo May

Our particular problem in America at this point in history is the widespread loss of the sense of individual significance, a loss which is sensed inwardly as impotence. Rollo May

History Problem Sense Our Significance Point Individual Particular Particular Problem Inwardly Loss Impotence America Sensed Which Widespread

Problems are the outward signs of unused inner possibilities. Rollo May

Problems Signs Possibilities Outward Unused Inner

Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other. Rollo May

Freedom Dignity Other Human Human Dignity Based

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