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Rollo May

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Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.


— Rollo May


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One does not become fully human painlessly.


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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.


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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.


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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.


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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.


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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.


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Depression is the inability to construct a future.


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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.


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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.


— Rollo May


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About Rollo May






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An innocent is only doing what he or Rollo May must do. He claims that by shifting anxiety to a fear one can therefore discover incentives to either avoid the feared object or find the means to remove this fear of it. May wrote this book with the intentions of it being easily read yet still providing all the information that came from the research in studying the cause and effects of anxiety.

May was a close friend of the philosopher and theologian Paul Tillich who also had a significant influence on his work. He is often associated with both humanistic psychology and existentialist philosophy. He was the author of the influential book Love and Will which was publiRollo Mayd in 1969.

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