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Rollo May
American
Psychologist
Born:
Apr 21
,
1909
Died:
Oct 22
,
1994
Experience
Freedom
Human
Life
Own
People
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Angela Duckworth
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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
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
Rollo May
Freedom
Wish
Our
Response
Throw
Weight
Toward
Involves
Human
Which
Capacity
Human Freedom
Pause
Choose
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Rollo May
Wisdom
You
Yourself
Will
Own
Betrayed
Ideas
Listen
Being
Your
Original
Original Ideas
Express
Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'
Rollo May
Sense
Our
Give
Myths
Identity
Am
Answering
Question
Personal
Personal Identity
Us
Who
Who Am I
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
The cooperative, loving side of existence goes hand in hand with coping and power, but neither the one nor the other can be neglected if life is to be gratifying.
Rollo May
Life
Power
Other
Side
Neglected
Neither
Nor
Existence
Hand
Hand-In-Hand
Goes
Loving
Cooperative
Gratifying
Coping
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
Man
Science
Seriously
Admitting
Our
Machine
Dangers
Tendency
Take
Study
Over
Make
Him
Very
Modern
Modern Science
Which
Apology
Techniques
Image
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
I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.
Rollo May
Experience
People
Free
Become
Believe
Possibilities
Should
Help
Therapist
Help People
Function
Aware
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