351 Quotes by Rollo May

The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.

Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way.

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence, a mien which seems to say, "You are looking at somebody now." ... this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

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.