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An American existential psychologist. Rollo May (April 21, 1909 – October 22, 1994) was an American existential psychologist. He authored the influential book Love and Will during 1969. He is often associated with both humanistic psychology and existentialist philosophy. May was a close friend of the theologian Paul Tillich. His works include Love and Will and The Courage to Create, the latter title honoring Tillich's The Courage to Be.
Here are some famous quotes by Rollo May.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow to move ahead.
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If the will remains in protest it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.
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The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.
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If you do not express your own original ideas if you do not listen to your own being you will have betrayed yourself.
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To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.
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In my clinical experience the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
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Humor is the healthy way of feeling 'distance' between one's self and the problem a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective.
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I think Dostoevsky was right that 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.
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Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
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The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's convictions-not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation but simply because these are what one believes.
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Courage isrequired 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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Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons longing as all individuals do to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals can participate in a relationship that for the moment is not of two isolated selves but a union.