The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
ROLLO MAYApathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
More Rollo May Quotes
-
-
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
ROLLO MAY -
All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
ROLLO MAY -
Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
ROLLO MAY -
One does not become fully human painlessly.
ROLLO MAY -
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
ROLLO MAY -
Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
ROLLO MAY -
Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
ROLLO MAY -
Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
ROLLO MAY -
Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
ROLLO MAY -
Mass communication–wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued–presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)
ROLLO MAY -
Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
ROLLO MAY -
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.
ROLLO MAY -
Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
ROLLO MAY -
There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
ROLLO MAY -
Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
ROLLO MAY