There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular – though profoundly mistaken – definition of myth as falsehood.
ROLLO MAYTo 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
More Rollo May Quotes
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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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.
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The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.
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Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
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One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.
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Courage is required not only in a person’s occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
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Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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